More news on smoking and diseases came last week in a new book, The Biologic Effects of Tobacco (Little, Brown; $4.50). Far from supplying the single, simple answer that so many seek, it makes clear that the relation between smoking, disease and premature death is highly complex. On the subject of cancer, the book's editor, Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, supplements some of his reports made at Atlantic City (see above). Smoking, and especially long-continued and heavy smoking of cigarettes, "plays a role in the causation of lung cancer," says Wynder. He is quick...
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