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Show Doctor Craws Grin F!c!ure For Smokers ;.v . ? - . Persons who smoke cigarets s!;:ulu have chest X-rays every ix months in order. to tliajpiose lur.j cancer in an early stage. Dr. Alton Ochsner, professor of surgery at Tulane university .school of meJicine. New Orleans, told the annual clinical conference confer-ence of the Chicago Medical society. soc-iety. Dr. Ochsner reported to the 0,000 doctors attending the con-terence con-terence that research has shown "without any question or doubt" . there is a cancer producing agent in the smoke from cigarets. He reported that his own investigations in-vestigations have shown that filters fil-ters "do not remove tars and other ingredients," as implied by the manufacturers. "The only physicians who will not admit that there is a casual relationship between smoking and cancer are those who are employes of the tobacco companies com-panies or those who are addicted to cigaret smoking", he said. "It is my firm conviction that they will develop cancer of the lung unless they die of something else before they develop the cancer." |