SMOKING IS NOT CAUSE OF CANCER

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1929, Page 5

SMOKING IS NOT CAUSE OF CANCER

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Contrary to . popular : belief, smoking . does C not , r cause v .<?ancpr. , Afae tongue or lungs. ’ J ' ' For months past a .select *:pon, of (ats, rabbits, guinea-rCgs, and mice at Sydney. iTipiyersitys -bas been :cx-’ perm'ieflted'with, to 'prove? to the sat-isfaction-of research medical men that the' smoking of dirty- ptpes, and the products of the .smoking of. tobacco, were not factors in the ’ causation.' jf>f , tongue and! flung, cancers. -Expeti - rjnaelats - all proved negative., _f S, :' ; *fScppe, months ; ago it was establishof; the skin- of •mice witlv-i’tar led in.a few weeks.'.to ;dancer /of tfcho Jpainted. area. T?hi9 (gave, rise ,tb ‘the;;;belief that the ptoof tO %F° tw'oUld 'Ulsd’'produce cancer. r£ . IN;JI£OE. 1* ■i' were : to p£>ldu.ee cancer in ( painting. areas Of the,skin with'the products of burnt tobacco ,lkdirr‘pipes, cigars and cigarettes. ifh. every case they were, unsuccessful." . - -■ '

It was argued then that those ex- , perirrents were not conclusive, spice. mouth, tliroat. and lung cancers located in skin areas different from , those treated in' mice.- .ss?' :

.Therefore the esjpenimenters •ffurtbef f artd :; conducted • 'the pfodaets j,to’ the: mucous , v : 'of; mouths of cats, rabbits, i ; guinea-y£gs L - -/fp-'i-.S ti* and mice. . , *>*l: v■ . t

Evert' after many months of repeated applications, no' cancers hove been produced'. It has been claimed .also, that ii.,. is the actual smoking rather than Hie materials which 'accumulate in piijs. that causes cancer. . \ ~ij Tobacco smoke was passed into Jibe mouths of. animals for -several weej|s, more or less continuously, and 'i* 10 cancers were observed. .i ,; j ' SMOKE TESTS. - Jir

Experiments'' Went even deeper than that, for the Anti-tobacco League had suggested, that malignant tumors||of . sh&'hthg ffijay to tobacco sm<%>?. For long smoke y B,B / into tlPluiiia%%re’ "anjmals menitioned y.,but- *obseWedyJhougii”the some ;lessfih ,: iriflffmmatqhy dev<M)1 1 We C|vrr qnly add,- |jp|pfoiokers|pll ovee'-Aust'raiia' joi h us in, thaniiihg the for their co-operation "in pricking another theoretical: bubble,: