SMOKING AND CANCER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 217, 2 December 1927, Page 9

SMOKING AND CANCER

EXPERT INDICATES PERIL I INCREASED MORTALITY ! By Cable.— Press Association. —Coyyriflt LONDON. Thursday. The mortality from cancer is increasing in most civilised countries, according to Professor Blair. He says the peril is now so great that unless men soon conquer the disease, the nations will be forced to stop waning and to unite to stamp out the horror that will threaten the existence of mankind. He advocates that the first line of defence should be prevention, for which the public should be educated and organised into a vast co-operative scheme, which must be sustained until it is as common as washing the hands. Cancer of the lips, the mouth, the tonsils and the pharynx is. he says, commonest in men. It was largely due to alcoholism and smoking Wooden pipes and cigarette holders are gripped in the most comfortable position in the teeth, and a continually directed stream of hot gases is sent to the same part of the tongue and the roof of the mouth and throat. Cigarettes smoked without a holder are the safest from this point of view, when cigars are impossible. All men over 40 should, the professor thinks, be examined twice a year at Government clinics.—A. and N.Z.

CHIANG WEDDED

REJOICING IN SHANGHAI By Cable.—Press Assoc-iatit-n. — Copyright Reed. 11.32 a.m. SHANGHAI. Thurs. All the foreign warships were dressed to-day in honour of the wedding of General Chiang Kai-chek. who was married to May-ling Soong, sister-in-law of Madame Sun Yat-seu. A strong bodyguard was present to prevent the possibility of an assassination.—A. and N.Z. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek until a few months ago was engaged in dual warfare against the Hankow Reds and the Northern Chinese armies under the supreme command of Marshal Chang Tso-lin. His headquarters were at Nanking. That city was besieged by the Northern army under Sun Chuan-fang and Cliiang's forces were heavily defeated on one or two occasions. The generalissimo suddenly gave up the struggle, left Nanking to its fate, and disappeared from the scene of hostilities.