"Lies, damned lies and statistics." Thus, only last week, the A.M.A.'s incoming President Elmer Hess, an Erie (Pa.) kidney and bladder specialist, had characterized much of the hard-won information on the subject of smoking and cancer. This week Dr. Hess—a smoker himself—was to hear some hard facts on the subject at A.M.A.'s convention in Atlantic City. Reason for the convention's preoccupation: lung cancer now causes around 24,000 deaths a year in the U.S., which puts it in the category of epidemic diseases.
The American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond rose at...
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