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Show gation of 188,000 men from the ages of fifty to seventy. In the four-year period, some 11,870 men of the 188,000 died. Of those who died, 7,316 were regular reg-ular cigarette smokers and 1,-644 1,-644 were non-smokers. Cancer Society Makes Study On Lung Disease The latest shocker to greet cigarette smokers is news from New York that a' massive human hu-man study, just concluded by the American Cancer Society, showed that cigarette smoking speeds up death by as much as seven to eight years before one's time. The study, which has been carried on in recent years, shows that cigarette smokers die from lung cancer ten times as frequently as non-smokers and that smokers have a seventy sev-enty per cent greater chance of developing coronary heart disease than do non-smokers. In one of the frankest and bluntest condemnations of heavy hea-vy smoking, Drs. Daniel Home and E. Culler Hammond, who directed the study, say the evidence evi-dence "proves" that smoking is a cause of lung cancer. Of course, lung cancer can be caused caus-ed by other things, also. The study from which these statistics and indications are drawn was a four-year investi- |