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Show Smoking Vets Dying Sooner WASHINGTON Cigarett-smokers Cigarett-smokers had a higher death rate than non-smokers among 250, 000 armed forces veterans participating in a special 10-year 10-year study, according to the National Cancer Institute. The institute said that the study, which still has another two years to run, showed that in the same age group 11 times as many cigarette-smokers as non-smokers died of lung cancer can-cer and 12 times as many died of another lung disease, emphysema. emphy-sema. Among smokers' there was a higher incidence of death from cancer of the mouth, pharynx, esophagus or larynx and such diseases as bronchitis, asthma, stomach ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and non-syphylitic aneursysm of the aorta, the institute said. |