Abstract
To Editor.— A recent note inThe Journal(220:1172, 1972) compares the right to be free from smoke with the right to smoke. I have two further comments. Cigar and Pipe Smoking and Cancer.— As early as 1955, Ochsner wrote: Prominent cancer investigators sobered by their own findings, have switched from cigarettes to pipes or cigars to reduce risk of lung carcinomas,1 but actually, smokers who have switched from cigarettes to cigars and pipes to avoid cancer of lung do not avoid risk of cancer. An association between smoking and cancer was recognized long before invention of cigarettes. In 1851 Sir James Paget saw a patient with leukoplakia (then known as Smoker's Patch) near middle of dorsal surface of tongue where he always rested end of his pipe, and told him he certainly would have cancer of tongue if he
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