SMOKING
The 'scare'
school gets some new facts
to think about
T
The results show that repeated attempts to cause cancer of duy kind by exposing animals to cigarette smoke and tobacco tar have failed almost entirely.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, "JULY 27, 1987.
Dear Ike: better watch the 'hot spot' right
on your doorstep...
Port-au-Prince, Halti
AT T the airport of Port-
au-Prince, the capital
of Haiti, a bongo drunimer
24
the
an
—FROM RENE MACCOLL
shattered
0:
many
HOSE experts who insist there is stil no proof that smoking causes in a gay shirt patters out man who was trained for the out at any time. it is a poor lung cancer, in spite of the jungle rhythms
priesthood and who has held moment to beg for tourists. Medien Research Council's "official" foreign passengers land.
many important police cor- Kebre himself has said that mands in the course statement that it does, get strong
his the omelni polley is to be grim This is part of a brave al military career.
and gay which sounds some- support from the results of experi-tempt to persuade everyone that
The
calm Wha instantly thing like that old-time song hit ments by 11 independent research is well and happy days are
when here again. But although Int of Port-au-Prince,
the pooplu "I'm Dancing With Tears In My teams issued recently,
of Eyes" may be half of an island in the sun.
whom live it is also a country in a
ia shocking shanty In the 100degs, sunshine the mess.
towns started up a tenebre multi-coloured parakcols dart (ghost) demonstration in favour and percech, the graceful women 1 have ween many odd of the President-Daniel Fignole in their garish dresses situation here and there la mywhom Kebrau
smoke time, but I cannot think of any at gun-point and exdied to New beneath huge baskets
hai deposed their pipes and sway along quite so embarrassing to all con- York.
balancet cerned as this.
on their heads like extros_in_a As a tremendous
Katherine Dunham danco Anale, din welled up-rocks were pounded on to
the open-air markets among the tin roots and thousands of fame trees are full of colour. people screameti and moaned in
and sound, and the mountains. their homes like
where sometimes the banshees
drums throb, brood high over all. ist trade had zoomed since Kebreau's police in their Ameri- the war into her
can style number two
military
But the swimming pools in the moved in with long bursta industry, worth not far short of
luxury holeis remain practically 10,000,000 dollars a year,
tommygun are.
splashless, the volcci of croupiers in the casino lost and mournful,
Human beings-on whom such dangerous experiments cannot be performed would probably react in the same way, the experts infer. So after four years of intensive research the case against the elgurette still rests almost completely on the evidence of STATISTICS.
The rare Instances in which malignant growths appear to have been caused in animals have plunged the issue into even greater confusion.
Examine the results of these experiments-experimente which were not sponsored by the tobacco manufacturers but by the British Empire Cancer Campaight-
Mice, ral, and hamsters have been exposed to the smoke and tar derived Iront British cigarettes at the Royal Cancer Hospital, London. "In a stance has any tumour arisen as a result," reports Profesor Richard Passey. This negative finding has been confirmed by experiments at Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, and olher cancer research centres,
EVEN AIR POLLUTION.
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NEW BOSS DOLLAR-SHORT Haiti's tour-
The Americans, only four Bourg away by au from Miami,
were
coming in mcrcusang swarms 10 Siple the rum, see the primitive dancing, and shiver deliciously at carefully- lak-on exhibitors of "UDOCOO rites."
WHEN Professor Paraty repented his experiments with lar
derived from American tobacco wo
animals developed violence, growths which might have been caused by It.
This funding coal, aplain why US, workers regalarly produce skin cancer in animals by painting them with tobacco tar, while the British scientists have failed." But it sheds no light on the
lung cancer İN-130,
For it 10 make use, lung cancer should be common among U.S. smokers, but not among British. In fact it is rising among
bunits.
"At London Hospital tumours appeared in several mice which had been treated with tobacco tar ius a proved cancer-forming chemical. This sugeat, dat tobacco tar, while not causing cancer self, might make the tissues more susceptible to the effects.of other cancer-forming agents.
But then the Haitians, whose political story is rukiled with started 10 have some fun of their own, different
There have been seven past six muntas. Finally
Governments in the last named inen, 48-year-old army officer emerged from the provinces
Antoni Kebrau
putsen and instal himself pis
swildly
conduct
buss of H Chi-
Jubia
nilitary
Kebrenu declared
a state of which siege,
means, Among curfew, summary trials can other things, that there 15:1 held, and anyone's home entered be
without a warrant.
Where could sucit egents come from? The pollution in the ar is highly septet. This, when researchers at Newcastle-upor Tyue paintes mice with extracts from the fumes of diesel engines several of the animals died with lung tumours suggesting the presence of eunicer-forming chemical.
ETorts to prove any connection between pollution and smoking love all falled. Thus, the workers at the Royal Cancer Hospital have exposed rats to the combined effect of cigarette and Kebrenu, a tough, cool smoke without causing any cancer,
...AND THE KIPPER
T St Bartholomew's Hospital team led by Professor John
Blacklock extracted the far from a proprietary form of filter which its into a elgarette holder. Each after had been used to smoke at least 16 eigureftes.
When this tar was inoculated into the lungs of eight white rais, two of them developed cancer. This would suggest that the ilters had been effective in taking some cancer-forming agent out of the smoke, But if this is so, how is it that the unfiltered smoke and far produce no cancers?
In spite of these doubts, suspicion about smoke in any form is now
so strong that the doctors are turning their attention to the possibility that smoked fish may cause cancer of the slomach.
Think of it. Not only smoked salmon and innan haddock, but even the kipper now falls under suspicion,
This in surely enough to make any would-be abstainer, who is not over-impressed by statistics alone, filck open his cigarette case and say: "I just give up."
RAND
Chapman Pincher
"There must be calm in the streets and calm in the hearts of our people," declared determined
|| News from Britain by LES ARMOUR "IF only,"
Scarcely the carefree holiday
Political chaos his mant economie diensten. The budget is In the red, many of the popuła - tion go hungry. and busines bankruptcica are as common ea bare feet. But li Kobreau is om- barrassed-then so is the US. News columnista in America that have been complaining Washington is ready enough to concern itself with OVČTEČER problems anywhere in the world except in her own backyard. "Isn't Halti port of the West'?" asks one American writer,
WATCHING
AMERICA has a special inter- A est in Hail because for 20 years-from 1915 to 1034-the country was run under a US.
Marines occupation. uniforms
of
An estimated 50 people were dlled and hundrede gaoled.
In
The Americans did much the
the way of roads, telephones, and sewage disposal, bun they also left a legacy of bitterness of a revolt after the crushing against them.
sound and when one rare tourist encounters an In the past three weeks an other it is almost uncasy calm has beld.
the Stanley But and Livingstone routine all over where you have G military again. dictatorship running a country in which civil war could break
HAIT!
REPUBLIC
GOING UP
mused tho letter to "The Times", a letter "The Times" placed at young man, "my wife which
the bond of the list of the and I had met
Mr Brian eplates from MPa, retired Duckworth at the time of statesmen, ambassadors, pre- our engagement our lives lates, and tycoons 'which daily might have been changed.
loud into its office.
Не
A
"If only we had realised that
waxed Indignant at
de by refraining from. such suggestion (tater oficially ridiculous luxurics
as eating, suribed as a merely "tentative" Christian sleeping, woaring alothes, suggestion) from the paying taxes and
Research travelling to Ecuncle and Social work we might have save! Foundation that, publie loans almost the whole of our joint should be provided in order lo £20 weeks...."
help young married couples set Now 'this
Mr Brian up house, Duckworth was author of a It was this sort of thing, in
Duckworth's view, leading the country along that Path
which leads
only to disaster und tho complete collapse of moral Abre. The young. ho sald, both could and should save.
THE SPENDTHRIFTS
£2.670m
£2,595
1951 *53
'55 *57
The Government
Spends More
The Pound Buys Less
1061
20%
1963
18s 3d
1965
178 7d
1907
16% 14
UP goos Government spending. DOWN goes the purchasing power of the sound. This Michael Rand chart shows how Government spending bat soured since the Derica came into office.
They reduced expenditure slightly in the fist these years. By 2955 increased Gurun- ment spending had more than offset the coonomies. For the current year the muttimates aro £404,026,549 more than the amount agent in their rst year.
And she buying power of the posud nas steadily falion from this 70m. of 1951 to 16. 14 Abla Toke.
}
which was
The ubiquitous
NAVET-NEVCI, Juring the young into debt, was bad enough. But to elevate is to the status of national policy! Ho was followed, however, by a man who represented a church commitice which had planned a £3,000 extension ita building.
Being prudent and Don- bellovers in Lho never-bevor they had decided to wait until they had raised at least £2,000 before embarking on the gro gramme. By that time, the cost of - tho work had risen to £4,000.
The ugly truth, despite Mir Duckworth, appears to be that inflation is now moving so fast that, la tho CREG
mizablo expenditures, it is no use saving your moncy. By the time you've saved the amount you originally noodat the value of money will have depreciated to the point where it will no longer do.
If, on the other hand, you buy your house on a mortgage the value of the house will tend to rise as you pay for it so that [your lovestment remains safe,
And, if you buy a car on the
never-never you will
go
paying only the price at the date you bought it oven though maney is depreciating and the price of eary going up
Even allowing for the interest you pay, you may save money. So perhaps, there is sometalug to be said for the Mientative"
muggestion put forward by the Christian Egonomie and Social "Kasolach "resindation.
Now Washington watches the The formerly gay nightspots Black Republic Inpsing to are hard hit by the 11 pm. chaos, and colcuintes the curfew, but some of them finve chances of Communism taking gamely tried to weather It by root among the shanty town urging their few guests to stay despair, on all night and emerge legally with the dawn.
IN THE RED
Sho hng so far not recognised the Kebreau dictatorship (neither has Britain), but the Republic of Panama has hasten- ed to extend diplomatic 20- cognition.
TRY to imagine Blackpool, America would certainly pro
Bournemouth and Bexhill duce the dollars to help Halt at the very height of the sum- If Washington could be sur mer season-and with only that some sort of stability had a handful of people about the been achieved. ⚫ place.
And if Kobreau. the tough polleeman-soldier,
manages the miracle and stays on in power, does America, then agree to give her dollars to a military dicta-
Try to imagine deserted cafes, empty bars, and echoing botels. Tomay guns among the olean demo and instant arrest 1 you are not home by 11 pm, tor?
If you appreciate
precision as well as quality
ZENÍTH
AUTOMATIC
(LE LOCLÉ - SWITZERLAND)