Dangerous Smoking
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 11. Smoking cigarettes was just as dangerous as playing Russian roulette, in which a soldier pointed a revolver loaded with one bullet at his head, revolved the chamber, and pulled the trigger, the senior chest physician at Wellington Hospital said this morning. He said that as far as the male smoker was concerned, there was one bullet in a chamber with a capacity of 15. The risk of death from lung cancer among male smokers was one in 15. He said the risk of contracting the disease was 25 times as great among smokers as among non-smokers. The death rate from lung cancer was increasing alarmingly, he said. In 1943, there were 175 deaths from the disease in New Zealand. Last year there were 500—100 more than the number killed on the roads.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 16
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