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Pursuing Medical Progress: Managing Benefits And Risks

THE ACTIVITIES OF daily living provide plentiful opportunities to encounter risks and embrace benefits, but only rarely does anyone stop to weigh the consequences. Whether lighting a cigarette, taking a stroll along a congested thoroughfare, or driving after a glass or two of wine, many of life’s pleasures involve a degree of risk. Take cigarette smoking: Forty-three years ago, Surgeon General Luther Terry announced that among men who smoked cigarettes, the death rate from lung cancer was 1,000 percent greater than among nonsmokers. Nevertheless, almost one-quarter of the U.S. population continues to smoke. While smoking remains the greatest preventable . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor

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