Cancer Assn. Head Visits Scientist Links Smoking Cancer in Israeli Study , JERUSALEM (ZINS) — The chances of an Israeli dying from lung cancer are 16 times greater among smokers of two packs of cigarettes a day and 81 times greater among those who smoke more than 40 cigarettes a day as compared with non-smokers, Prof. I. Rackover, head of the medical faculty of the Hebrew University, eports. The number of deaths from lung : cer in Israel, writes the profes- sor, now occupies second place af• ter stomach cancer. During the years 1950-57 the number of pa- tients suffering from lung cancer increased from 8.6 to 17.2 per 100, 000 residents. The number of pa- tients suffering from stomach can- cer remained unchanged — 15 per 100,000. Of interest is the assertion by the scientist that the number of those suffering from lung cancer is eight times greater among those born in Europe (ranging in age from 40 to 60) than among immigrants from Yemen in spite of the fact that the Yemenites begin to smoke in their early youth. In the opinion of Dr. Rackover, this is due to the fact that the Yemenites do not smoke cigarettes but nargillahs (an oriental appar- atus for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke is drawn through water). The professor describes the "bio- graphy" of a smoker as follows: pleasure at the age of 20, habit at the age of 30, passion at the age of 40, damage to the blood vessels at the age of 50 and lung cancer at the age of 55. * * * Israel's Anti-Smoking Campaign Lauded NEW YORK (JTA)—The Amer- ican Cancer Society lauded an anti- smoking educational campaign launched by the Israel Cancer As- sociation aimed at reducing the number of deaths among Israelis from lung cancer and other dise- ases. The American group praised particularly the posters issued by the Israeli organization which have been prominently displayed in pub- lic buildings and buses, and stamps to be affixed to envelopes. "The poster and stamp," the American Cancer Society said, "constitute an enterprising means of drawing attention to the health hazards involved in cigarette smoking. We consider this of vital importance to all people and we hope the efforts of the Israel or- ganization are successful." Coffee for Celebrating Maxwell House Coffee, compan- ion piece to Passover sponge cake, is again available for the holiday at nearby grocers'. It's a blended coffee that is the result of many years of perfecting. I WHY WORRY I I Leave Everything to Us WIN and HAROLD LANDIS HOME CATERING Phone EL 6-8411 • STYLE • ELEGANCE • BEAUTY WYN-HAROLD CATERING Israelis Are Smoking More, Ben-Meir's Enjoying It Less By CHARLOTTE HYAMS each town to reach every sec- Suppose you headed a health tor of the population, and banks stay open late into the night to agency and found that smoking was definitely a cause of lung receive the collections. cancer. What sort of campaign Radio bulletins throughout the would you launch? country beam the campaign's They tried the skull-and-cross- progress in the old telethon tra- bones technique in this country. dition of America's Damon Run- Results: scared smokers threw yon Cancer Fund Drive. Last year, they raised 500,000 away their unfinished packs, then sneaked back to the drugstore for pounds ($166,667) in one night of door knocking. Ben-Meir is proud a carton.. The 3: .•'• of the results, but this year the tobacco folks association hopes to raise 1,000- have never had 000 pounds through the drive and it so good. associated activities. Dov Ben-Meier, The funds are channeled into t h e 39-year-old the many operations of the cancer director general association, from experimental of the Israel home-care projects for' cancer Cancer Associa- patients to the setting up of reg- tion, is trying a ional detection centers (there are different ap- now 53); from loans to the fami- proach in his lies of needy victims to the forma- Ben-Meir country. He's blanketed the nation with tion of rehabilitation clubs and posters and stamps depicting an grants for research. Ben-Meir pointed out that basic improbably healthy, pink-faced non-smoker, a flower protruding cancer research in Israel is fi- from his unstained lips, and the nanced by international fund s. friendly admonition underneath: Several of Israel's outstanding sci- Assay Pachot/Chayay Yotair — entists are working under grants from abroad. Smoke Less/Live Longer. To help its young scientists win You can't board a bus with- the attention of such world founda- out the blossom-chewing chap tions, however, the Israel Cancer beaming down at you. And if Association subsidizes their first you resort to walking, you're bound to pass a wall with his work in the field. Twenty-five per cent of the association's budget face on it. goes toward this research, as well Ben-Meir doesn't want to scare as the development of techniques anyone, simply because he's cer- of detecting and treating cancer. tain it won't work. "Smoking is a The 14-year-old Israel Cancer part of our modern society, the reaction of a normal man to a Association receives no financial aid from the government; on the mechanized, fast society. I don't think we can be 'The Cancer contrary, it gives to the govern- ment to insure the adoption of ASsociation Against Cigarettes' and hope to succeed; it must be new cancer treatment methods a combined campaign by all through the government health service. fields to approach the many so- (Israel's government, inciden- cial problems—not just smoking— tally, faces a curious dilemma with we face." Ben-Meir's anti-smoking campaign: And as Israel is becoming a tobacco sales taxes pay for 60 per mechanized, fast society, and cent of its health budget.) smoking is on an increase, cancer With a staff of 10 in his Tel is assuming an importance in the Aviv office, Ben-Meir supervises national health picture it never held before. "Our cancer fre- the operations of 42 branches quency," he said, "is that of a throughout Israel. The Central Cancer Registry he has set up has modern society." been acclaimed as one of the best Not that cancer didn't exist be- by the World Health Organization fore. "It's just that in the '50s we That the work of the Israel Can- were too busy with other medical cer Association is considered of problems involved in the settling the utmost importance in the of immigrants. Now we have country is attested to by the name more time to devote to cancer re- of its president: Mrs. Abba S. search and care." Eban, wife of the foreign minister. Ben-Meir figures 16 per cent Chairman of the board is Prof. of all deaths in Israel are due Issac Berenblum internationally to cancer, with 2,000 new can- known cancer scientist and direc- cer patients per million popu- tor of the department of experi- lation. Cancer of the digestive mental biology at the Weizmann tract is the predominant form Institute of Science. but lung cancer is on the rise. But the real dynamo behind the There is also high incidence of plant is Dov Ben-Meir. cancer of the breast among A many-faceted career preceded women, who, at the same time, his introduction to the cancer asso- show a low incidence of cancer ciation. Born in Poland and edu- of the cervix. cated at an agricultural school in (Arab women, however, are less Palestine, he helped found the likely to contract cancer of the settlement of Maayan Baruch in breast. Ben-Meir attributes this the Upper Galilee when he was fact to their large number of chil- still a young man serving in the dren, who are breast fed.) Palmach fighting force in 1947. He is in Detroit on a Henry He lived and worked on the Wineman International Award fel- kibbutz for six years and took a lowship, named for the late local young halutzah (pioneer) as his philanthropist. With this grant, bride before leaving for Jeru- Ben-heir is studying the unique salem and Israel's Hebrew Uni- organization of one of the model versity. He graduated with ma- Jewish communities in the world jors in economics and science. in hopes of carrying some ideas Much of his experience as lec- home with him. turer and information officer came He chose Detroit, in fact, be- out of the Prime Minister's Office, cause of its enviable reputation for where he served as director of the mobilizing community support for publications service in the Central local and overseas causes. Office of Information until 1962. Ben-Meir could give a few les- Today he is speaking before the sons of his own. Michigan Cancer Society, one of Four years ago as the new di- several lectures he has delivered rector general of the Israel Can- in Detroit. cer Association, he instituted a If, after hearing Ben-heir speak, nationwide fund-raising campaign you'd like to offer him a cigarette for the nongovernmental agency. over a cup of coffee, don't bother. Each November, 45,000 Israeli "I used to smoke three packs of volunteers—including the army cigarettes a day," he said, "but I and police force—take part in the suddenly realized what a nuisance massive, one-night effort. it was, and quit." Arab citizens join with the That was 13 years ago. He two chief rabbis and mayors of hasn't smoked since. 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