[Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Rye Borough.

  • Rye (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / Medical Officer of Health, Rye Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/66 page 14
    (8) MOUTH TO MOUTH RESUSCITATION During the year 19^7 practical instruction was given to members of the general public in Eye through the medium of the British Red Cross Society and the St.John Ambulance Brigade. SMOKING, CANCER AND DISEASE Lung Cancer deaths in England and Wales 12£} 1965 1266 1967 Males.. Females .. •• 3.677 21,476 3,8% 22,231 4,168 22,606 . .4.? .4.U 23,546 4-.TP-4 24,434 25,371 26,399 27,019 28,250 Past experience has revealed that smoking cigarettes is a caus¬ ative factor in lung cancer, whereas cigar smoking is comparatively innocuous. The Tobacco Research Council in its search for a more safe cigarette has noted that cigarette tobacco is flue cured at a high temperature and that cigar tobacco is air cured, resulting in a high plant sugar content in the former as against a lower content inccigar tobacco. Animal experiments appear to confirm that condensates of the high plant sugar induce cancer. The elimination of the responsible chemical fraction could lead to the production of a cancer-free cigarette tobacco and on this particular facet there is a glimmer of hope for the future. However, the other adverse properties affecting bronchitis and vascular disease would remain. On a more dismal realistic note we see lung cancer continuing to claim its mounting toll of victims from amongst addicted cigarette smokers, thus emphasising that health education must continue to be the mainstay of prevention. It is salutary to reflect that on average in 1965 each day, each person per head of the population in the United Kingdom spent 17•4d on smoking and 19»1d on education.
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