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Warning on Cigarettes Proposed by Senator
WASHINGTON. — (UPI)— Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger, (D-Ore.) has proposed that each package of cigarettes be required to carry a warning that smoking can lead to lung cancer, heart disease and other health risks.
Mrs. Neuberger, a former smoker, stopped short of advocating tobacco prohibition, but she said there were "practical and judicious measures which can effectively be employed to brake the rising toll of smokers."
The proposal was part of a four-part attack on smoking outlined by the attractive former school teacher in her newly published book, "Smoke Screen."
BUT MRS. NEUBERGER offered little hope of enlisting her fellow senators to enact legislation which would carry out any anti-smoking program. She proposed that the program be implemented by administrative orders "within the framework of existing legislation."
"It is my purpose in this book to enlist the support of my readers in the task of implementing such measures," she said.
Mrs. Neuburger's book was the signal bell for what is expected to be a difficult round for the tobacco industry in the battle against any action that would curtail sale of its products.
A special committee appointed by the U.S. surgeon general is expected to deal the industry a severe blow late this year by reporting that there is a definite link between smoking and lung cancer, heart disease and other ailments.
Mrs. Neuberger said a host of surveys left no doubt there was a link between smoking and lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, cancer of the bladder, gastric and duodenal ulcers, bronchitis, pneumonia, influenza, and other diseases.
SEN. NEUBERGER'S new book is part of her effort to stimulate greater research into the causes and treatment of cancer. She underwent a successful operation for cancer in 1961 and her husband, the late Sen. Richard C. Neuberger, was a cancer sufferer.
He died in 1960 of a cerebral hemorrhage but doctors indicated it might have been partially a result of his struggle with cancer. His wife later was elected to his senate seat
She said her "best guess" was that there would be 300,000 to 500,000 fewer deaths each year if it were not for smoking. In addition, she said, there probably are about 1 million or 2 million persons in this country who are "disabled to some degree by the effect of smoking cigarettes."
The four general sectors of government activity where Mrs. Neu-
- Education of both the presmoking adolescent and the adult smoker.
berger said remedial action was "presently both justified and tardy" were;
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- Expanded research into the technology of safer smoking.
- Reform of cigarette advertising and promotion.
- Cautionary and informative labeling of cigarette packages. This could be carried out by the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner under the powers given to him by the hazardous Substances Labeling Act, Mrs. Neuberger said.
THE LADY SENATOR said the FDA commissioner can and should require each cigarette package to bear the word "warning" or "caution" and carry an "affirmative statement of the principal hazard or hazards."
The FTC guidelines, she said, should ban tobacco advertisements that overemphasize the pleasure of smoking, that feature the heroes of youth, that appeal to pride or manliness, or that link smoking with success, including success in romance.
Mrs. Neuberger said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had the power to establish guidelines for cigarette advertising and to require that they be followed.
Mrs. Neuberger proposed a program of mandatory controls on permissable tar, nicotine and pheno yields of cigarettes.
Government funds should be made available, she said, to step up the smoking-control research by the national institutes of health and non - governmental institutions which obtain grants from the Public Health Service.
"The measures which I have recommended, even if fully implemented, would not destroy the cigarette industry," she said. "Neither would they eliminate all smoking connected diseases."
OTHER RESEARCH should be encouraged, she said, to develop more efficient filters, chemical additives for filters and low-nicotine low tar producing strains of tobacco.
But, she said, they "should serve to dampen the growth of cigarette sales and perhaps even cause a moderate tapering off in sales as a new generation grows up."
Classical Film Series
"Louisiana Story" and "Night Fog" will be shown at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Auditorium. "Louisiana Story" is an American film and "Night Fog" is a French film. The movies are seventh in the Classical Film series, sponsored by Student Union Activities.
A town planner from the Netherlands will speak to the School of Engineering and Architecture tomorrow on land reclamation and town planning.
Dutchman to Speak On Town Planning
Cornelius de Cler, a visiting consultant of the U.S. Public Health Service, will speak at 1:30 p.m. in 301 Marvin Hall and at 4 p.m. in Dyche Auditorium.
In the Netherlands, de Cler chief of the Town Planning Department, Ministry of Housing and Building. He was selected primarily for his achievements in the field of metropolitan planning.
De Cler will be prepared to discuss ideas on creating healthful environments with civil engineering students as well as students of architecture and architectural engineering.
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Police, aided indirectly by an度 to Friday's million-dollar-plus jewel robbery, last night recovered more of the loot inside a boiler in an empty lot on Manhattan's west side.
Jewel Robbery Witness Found. Loot Recovered
The value of the recovered loot was not immediately determined, and police did not disclose the name of the witness to the stickup.
The lot is near the spot where five bandits, two of them dressed like policemen, stopped a station wagon of the AAA jewelers messenger service by tricking the driver into thinking he had made a traffic violation. The bandits then forced six guards out of the station wagon and made off with the jewels.
Police said he then contacted his employer, Schuster's Express, adjacent to the lot, and authorities were notified. Officers said they hoped to question the witness later to get a description of the bandits.
Police said the witness saw the stickup from the fourth floor of a nearby building but did not report it to police. However, he told a friend who last night rummaged around the lot until he found a bag of jewelry.
Police already have recovered at least half of the stolen gems and some gold bars taken in the holdup. They were found in the station wagon the day of the holdup.
BROOKLINE, Mass. — (UPI) — Elimination tournaments on 79 different golf courses were required to qualify the field of 150 that competed in the U.S. Open championship June 20-22.
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Choosing Right Antibiotic A Problem for Doctors
By Delos Smith
NEW YORK, —(UIPI)—A scientifically expert view of the present effectiveness of the antibiotics after 20 years of widespread use is highly optimistic but is not without worrisome dark spots.
They're still wonderfully life-saving enemies of the common bacterial invaders of the human body, such as the pneumococci, gonococci and the streptococci which mess up blood chemistry.
THE EXPERT view is that Ernest Jawetz, a pioneer in antibiotics and an associate of Dr. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibiotic, penicillin. He is a doctor both in microbiology and in medicine and professor of microbiology at the University of California, San Francisco.
But medical doctors generally are not nearly sharp enough in finding out first what bacterial enemy is sickening a man before pitting an antibiotic against it. Often they pick the wrong antibiotic.
In an unpublicized lecture he distinguished between those bacteria which are always foreigners to human chemistry even when they're in human bodies sickening and killing, and those bacteria which normally inhabit people.
The common invading bacteria give up the ghost to the proper antibiotic as readily or almost as readily as ever, he said, and "It may be hoped and expected that this behavior will continue for years to come.
"SOME INFECTIONS that were common in past decades, such as tuberculosis, diphtheria and scarlet fever have decreased in incidence to very low levels." But "in a modern general hospital the overall prevalence of infections has not fallen substantially."
The microorganisms responsible for this unhappy state of affairs are the natives of the human body. "They are particularly adaptable to environmental changes and are frequently somewhat resistant to existing microbial drugs," he said.
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