MOTORS CAUSE CANCER
FAMOUS DOCTOR’S OPINION \ i. “DISEASE OF CIVILISATION” By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Sir Arbuthnot Lane, president of the New Health Society, expresses the opinion that motoring Is the cause of a new form of cancer of the lungs from which he says 10 per cent, of the victims of cancer die. He bases this statement on figures supplied from Vienna. These show an increase in cancer of the lungs since 1895. Sir William says: “It is obvious that the condition is coincident with the motor-car and the use of tar on the roads. I am convinced that cancer is a disease of civilisation as is shown by its comparative absence in India ■wherever the natives adopt a natural form of living, though where the Indians adopt the habits and foods of white men the incidence of cancer is equal to that in Europe.”—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 278, 14 February 1928, Page 13
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