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Can It Be Risk To Stop Smoking?

——

Hugh Cleland Finds A New

View On The Tobacco Scare

性

on the subject men over Bradford. done no work

show ERHAPS it was only myself. But the figures

that in all kinds of cancer, the my imagination, but

incidence is much the same be- non- and smokers tween the non-smoking com-

smokers. partments of the train that brought me here seemed un- commonly full.

"It one of the figures produe:d is significant that showing a higher incidence of tung cancer I glanced at my neighbours.

in smokers so is the other,

Д looked to be a plumply that shows lower incidence They

of cancer slted elsewhere in prosperous, level-headed lot. I many of them wondered how

those who smoke.“ had been scared out of the sim- The ple pleasure of smoking by the frightening theories on smoking and disease so publicised lately. was on my way to see Dr Fairweather, who seemed

Roy

to have struck a telling blow

the smakers against for the Jeremiahs, to have dropped a

grain of large-sized

sense into the bolling controversy.

commen

medical

room

The first thing he said as I sat down in his waiting was: I'll Act

ushtray. en Then he offered me a cigarette. We lit up and began to talk - about the relationship between lung cancer and

smoking.

a

50, over-weight is much mare serious problem than whether they smoke or not."

like thrombosis, Coronary

has been of the lung blamed on smoking. The doctor told me this story. Someone he knew in Scotland developed 'he disense.

cancer

A) the patient's friends agreed it was due to his over-working, ever-eating, over- drinking, over-smoking.

OWI

under-

doctor is a lean, dark-sleeping. "Nature is getting its

own back," they said. who hoa smoked haired Scot,

L- "But I made my for 30 years, since he was 17,

doctor said. ་ and nowadays admits to 30-40 quiries," the

found this man's twin brother, cigarettes a day.

who led the most absterious

where

Irritation

He sald: "Cancers occur there is irritation. The type a! life you lend deter mines its site.

"There Jo another thing."

The sald the doctor.

'heavy' smokers (25-plus a day) men- cigarette tioned by the statisticians, probably live a hard life. Really

tends to British heavy smoking

to the a letter In Medical Journal, the doctor had pointed out that statistics pro- duced to show smokers were the over-liable to cancer of

equally suggested they less llable than non smokers, io develop the parts of the disease in other body.

wore

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life, was at that same time in haspital suffering from coronary thrombosis. In other words, it

two

men's the way he

when they erteries were made

to the were born that led

I often think it trouble. the same with cancer."

was

Pamphlet

MEN FONTAN

FOLLOWING

THE DUKE IN CANADA

THE DATELINE IS URANIUM CITY

PROBABLY THE MOST FANTASTIC SPOT ON EARTH TODAY

Uranium City a Geiger counter on top of his (Lake Athabaska), ledgers He owns several claims.

And so does everyone else. FRENCH-CANADIAN

The bush is crisscrossed with prospector called Mon- stakes, pezzed out by men who Mercredi tried to pace out the bounds, sometimes sell me a part share in a walking through the dark, There are only. two hour DI TWO!- uranium claim for a crate of darkness in this bicak territory

sey

bottled beer. The claim was оп the edge of barren lands genuine enough.

Dawn breaks, and birds start to one o'clock in the

It iles out beyond Martia sing, at Lake, where radlo activity morning.

makes red rocks crackle uke

worth

Ted Ellingham, Government me that about claims have been formy- ally registered In the last 18

fried egg. But beer is usually legs told

more than uranlum among those who peddle pro- months. The snag is that no-

shack town

perty in this

atomic dreama.

Beer can be drunk.

of

body seems to bo mbing the stuff,

rumours of rivalry

Despite It also

costs up to a dollar a bottle "in and rumpuses in this bewilder- the bush" by contract, Uranium ing boom-town, there are only ls everywhere. And almost three mines producing uranium everyone in Canada's Uranium in the whole of Canada.

City (population 1,150) has got Atomic Jackpot

some.

on

the Great Bear

Within

I know because I have Been two hours of my arrival on the old Athabaska them. Those mines are at Port steamer (it makes the frip Radium, twice n year) I heard about Lake, at the huge Government- good property found by Father controlled mine of Eldorado at O'Brien, the young priest here, Bonverlodge, just over the hill, and at the Rix Athabaska hold- who has the reputation of and

ings, a tow miles away. being the best husky dog tearn "musher" in the North.

This is the route that the Duke of Edinburgh will follow during his tour of Canada. He will be the first member of the Royal Family to travel within the

Circle Arctic when he makes his northern-Over most visit of the tour, to Coppermine. (Reutorphoto),

Solid Hunk

Some mines may hit the atomle jackpot in the future. Gunnar, for fustance. It lies on the edge of Lake Athabaska, on which there was still lee when I arrived.

I also inspected a solid hunk

ore about Gilbert Labine, of Ottawa, of black uranium the size of a bowler hat, pro- owns it, and has just spent duced by Gus Hawker. the 800,000 doljars on trucks and local storekeepi and fabulous shovels In D preliminary

character. He brought his kids, ground-skinning operation.

constant named April, May and June, Other mines

for the Coronation laat source of rumour in Uranium your and plans to sell out his City's huge saloon bar, where ers, prospectors, hordes of miners, extensive holdings.

and rock doctors (geologists) rub shoulders with financiers, gamblers, and drunks,

I then had a word with the local bank manager, who keeps

HERR DOKTOR

IS SURPRISED

By FRANCIS MARTIN

are a

Two barges bring 2,000,000 bottles of beer to Uranium City

cách YERE

In front of the saloon the dusty trail to the minics dis-

Into a green wall of Janine scrub. This is liter

ally a

one-horse

town.

The

horse is a fly-bitten gylding that Wanders ps in winter. It

down Fission Road, husky dogs and wears help-

ed to haul some of the shacks from 40 the across abandoned gold camp near the

classrooms "But although Uranium City

London. housing 140,000. New lake.

SMALL, smiling, schools of 20 grizzled German with each are being finished at has neither sewers, sidewalks, a false left arm and a the rate of one a month. reticent grey flannel suit has been whizzed hospitably

Downtown stands Sievek-

is on inspection or social calls ing's especial pride, a group between Southampton's of 12 postwar skyscrapers,

he ambitiously ocean terminal, the Houses As of Parliament, vintage them, eight to 14 storeys

has

A

nor running water supply, there are 22 taxis in the town. Two of them werd flown in by plane, the floated up others

were Good water costs a dollar Athabaska River on barges. barrel and has been used to put calls out fires, of which there

been an epidemic lately.

Undoubtedly, the most optimis- and Maguire, leading citizen president of the local “Chamber of Commerce" who says he

belleves in the place."

Oxford colleges, a donnish high, with 6,000 tenants. tie man in Urapium, City is Ben dinner party at The Mitre,

The Sleveking brains trust is spending currently

Troilus and At King's Cross slation, on an evening of the way up here, my eye had Cressida at Stratford-on- been cought by 3 scarlet and Avon, and a bankers' lunch at the rate of £120,000,000, a year, including contribu- with the ille yellow pamphlet

in the City. the on "Smoking and Cancer"

tions to Germany's central bookstall. I bought

Name: Dr. Kurt Sievek- government. With a popula must build

Д copy.

It ended with a quotation: "We

social climate in ing, aged 57. Job: Burgo- tion of 1,750,000, this works

up

43

as reprehe $2,000) and personal allow-

Dollars To Burn Ben came down, from the mines at Yellowknife to the north and opened a store where prospectors can buy all forms of hardware from "grappling irons" (knives and forks) to rilles and Geiger counters.

with hard-drinking. late nights and skipped meals.

"Probably the average smok- er's life is nut as long as that of the old maid who doesn't smoke or drink and goes to bed ut ten every night. But then which excessive smoking is master of Hamburg. Annual out at nearly £70 a head, the rest of us live a different regarded

Just

pay: £8,000 (taxed down to babes in arms included. life from that altogether, and sible as excessive drinking.

In Uranium City he says n smoking is

But why worry? Is not of the only part

offer of a cigarette at 11 a.m.

(untaxed), Germany

man is as good as his credit" difference.

bursting or 3 p.m. must be as out of ance of £1,000

with and looks forward to the day "I don't think enough place as the offer of a glass of He is here as guest of the

prosperity 7 Sleveling ad-when the town will be lit by evidence has been produced sherry or gin and French!" Foreign Office, living proof

Justify people being The statistics were contained to

I thought of a brave new of current Foreign Office mits that prices are easier atomic power,

Is the town tough? He doesn't in a long article by Professor frightened about smolting, or to

Street police policy, which may ba de in Hamburg than here, but think so, even then

that the Bradford HILL,

eminent malce them change their habits. world

local drillers from Eldorado swarm caught fined in medical statistician,

Noel Coward's standard of living is lower. into the saloon on Saturday that

"In disease, you have so many court full of people was

factors to rackon with. A man smoking out of hours.

as "Let's not be backed by a grave editorial on

to Dr Fair-words I know gave up smoking as an ed. the pamphlet the danger to smokers.

"Ot ali the vices, beastly to the Germans." measure. He put on weather. "But when I looked at those economy graphs and statistics," said Dr weight, as you do if you give up he said, "I think smoking is the. sald good- least harmful." 1

Slevelding is described in Not long afterwords, Fairweather, Roy

"my first smoking.

seven a thumbnail sketch put out thought was, 'How nice. I can he was in hospital with coronary byc.

in the thrombosis. The weight he had cigarette-stubs by then smoke with impunity."

"I've worked entirely on put on since stopping smoking ashtray he had brought in 45 by the Foreign Office as "of a patrician Hamburg fami- "I've was pari of the trouble. For minutes earlier, their figures," he said.

an

MONSIEUR MUGGS

A HAT OR

ONSIEUR J.

and Bow

There

were

I show-

CHEWS TWO

From SYDNEY SMITH

By,"

-

argues

Key Personality In his unostentatious way, was German Steveking, who Minister In Stockholm from 1951

diamond

night with dollars to burri.

Jim Lang, the Mountie chief, rarely arrests any drunk who is not actually wrecking the town, There are too many of them.

Uranium City is a man's town. Women,

·including / copper--- to 1953, is one of the key pr sonales of Northwest Europe. skinned Indian girls, are out- Seventeen years

old when the numbered by four to one. It' Kaiser's war broke out, he joined also a shack town, despite one up as a volunteer, fought the fine hotel, Rebuilding City

post office, and school, Bussians in Poland as a hussar church.

Other buildings stand on skida The phrase did not offend deutenant, and lost his late aratt

crash-landing while train and can be hauled about like hen Sleveking when I quoted it,

ing to be Aghter

coops. They include the wrecked pilot.

fuselage of a DC3 plane now but I think it surprised him

"coffee-stall. That rather. His comment wos:

was enough war for being used as 'an' "There are no patricians in Slevoking. During the twenties he campaigned. with other Germany today. What about zberals for Streseroann and the yesterday? The Slevekings rosy Ideals of European brother- have been tradera, lawyers hood.

in

D

μ

John Hillaby

POCKET CARTOON

Paris. customers attracted so much priority over the North Atlantic and local senators in Ham-

Then the Nazis came to power. burg for two centuries. A sleveking prudently with bew by OSBERT LANCASTER"). Five hundred peoplo Trealy diplomats. FRED attention.

praiseworthy record. But I from politics altogether

Jand 35.00 M MUGGS, honorary as- blocked the road,

From 1 lunch, Motisicur 10.50 sociate of the British Diplo- As they watched Monsieur Muggs, with his two owners, Roy do not see anything patrician became legal adviser: to War Waldron and Buddy Menella, about It in the Foreign bur bankiin Hamburg them, matic Service for his TV Muggs lap up all the butter, was given traffic priority for his Office's sense of the word, Coronation broadcasts in snatch everybody's wine, and drive to the fashion show. which implies aristocratic & America, stopped the traffic grab at every fresh salad hờ

privilege and power, dating interest of Jews; *** people 5.00 in Paris and then broke up could see, they stopped the traffic

back to chain mail and who owned Warburgs were robbed of their money, but thay 4.00 a fashion show because he in one of Paris main erossings

battleaxes.

have since got it back ** tried to chew up the latest the Place de l'Alma. things in Paris hats.

5.00

1.00

5.00

Frankly, well-dressed, though

One man in the crowd cried. so much with laughter--and this.

There in the heart of fashion- ablo Paris, Monsieur sat in the chair of honour, a white-painted, slender wrought-iron thing with a brilliant yellow plastic cushion

Enthusiastic

#Jewish

the

As Burgomastor of self- governing. Hamburg, Slevek ing is the city's mayor and ↑ In 1944 the Nazis win he hi refreshing, uninhibited a true, believe it or not that Lovely women cooed around prime minister rolled into him out, pul him: In Unika 10.00 behaviour is beginning to make the police had to carry him him. A gorgeous 25-yahold one. He presides over again and ported him to the

Groven the most humanised aweợ”). Paralans look like a lot of 24.00 monkeys.“

15 man

army of occupation,

Fath model, Isabello Guliel The NATO diplomats lunching hals.

showed some gorgeous, fantastic éénate, or cabinet, of

Monsieur Mugas, quite members; in a semi-circular Denmark around ›› Momsleur: Mitggs had reasonably, kissed her hand, chamber, never been noticed so much

his other three. before. The publicity brought . But with his

"bands" hs, grabbed her hat and Since he first became a K ́ ́A Monsieur, with: his owners and this to filendly little;!; semi- tore it to bits. Thir hendid va! | city official) (1945), Slovek round, toom T

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diplomatk apë embarrassed them least three dimes at 220 8 ume, by a main concern has been Júnched nt riporter,

so much that, some of them prov) freinding swari fenfierno Beingeda restaurarit

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