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Ricardo Ceballos, MD
Birmingham, Ala

JAMA. 1970;212(4):627.

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To the Editor.—

Intentionally or not, the cover of your February 23rd issue constitutes a beautiful criticism, in reality a magnificent low-keyed joke, on much of what is wrong with the current efforts to curb and influence smoking habits among the American population. How can you convince the young bull-fighter to stop smoking because of possible metaplasia of his bronchial tree when he is in a few minutes going to find himself in the bull ring fighting a Miura bull? It is almost like telling the convict about to be shot not to smoke his last cigarette because of the danger of carcinoma of the lung. This "irrelevance" is made even more obvious on reading the actual paper to which the cover refers. It seems that the chances of getting metaplasia of the bronchus for a man who smokes more than one pack of cigarettes per day is 73.5%; but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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