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More on films

Les McDonald, North Van-
couver writes: I would like to
join with N. E. Story in tak-
ing R. S. to task on the criti-
cism of the films in this years

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OR some time now, the de-
mate in the relationship of
ing .to lung cancer has
Taging. A short time ago,
British Daily Worker print-
aot very revealing infor-
Wht on this question, of
ich the Pacific Tribune re-
a service to its

e
ty years ago cigarette
mption in Great Britain
d at 30,000. Ibs. of tobacco
Maly, Today the figure is
Million Ibs. To purchase
huge mountain of tobacco,
Public pays 1,000 million
Nds a year, of which 700
10n pounds finds.its way
nly the National Treasury.
the Income Tax exceeds
igure as a source of Govt.
‘at the same time that cigar-
fee upton has been in-
. Ing at this © fantastic
0° the incidence of lung

nertionately. In 1926 there
2,500 deaths from the

the American Cancer Society

Recs caused by primary canc
Sas in Canada €on
ritish views on this question.

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fr has also been growing

"88e. In 1947 the death toll

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Only

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Only

among
the above

er of the lung
firm in the main

was 9,500. By 1951 the toll had
risen to 13,200 and last year
lung cancer claimed 22,000
victims. If the acceleration
continues unchecked, by the
turn of the century 1 million
people will have succumbed to
this dread killer.

Heavy smoking (e. 25 or
more cigarettes per day) in-
creases the likelihood of devel-
oping lung cancer by 20-40
times. In addition to this, it re-
duces the efficiency of breath-
ing by 10%. Nor does rolling
your own or smoking filtertips
help. Pipe and cigar smoking
on the other hand, expose the
smoker to only 25% of the
dangers presented by cigar-
ettes—either filter or plain.

In making these startling
disclosures, a chest physician
states that there are 3 points
to remember in quitting smok-
ing: 1. No. box of pills can do
the job for you — you must do
it yourself. 2. “Cutting down”
seldom helps — it’s best to
quit abruptly and cleanly. 3.
The torment lessens with time,
although in some cases, the de-

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re facts and figures on U.S
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and conditions,
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trade unions.

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de _ questions and pro-

; health
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liberties. Also gives the
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a.)
ee a Workers Life,
liam Z%. Foster (paper-
ict $2.75, William Z. Foster
48 the exploitation and
8les of an American work-.
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nthe Left: Wing Trade

Stee at People’s Co-
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sire may remain for months.

He goes on to state that
what is obviously needed is a
wide-spread program of educa-

particularly the young people,
with just what is entailed by
picking up the habit. This pro-
gram becomes all the more

CIGARETTE CIGARETTE

various kinds of smokers.

carnnfual?

tion which would impress. all,}.

Lie

Only & Other

in 1957 shows comparative

findings. Below we publish

spending over 5 million
pounds a year in an adver-
tising campaign which liter-
ally encourages people to
smoke themselves to death.

The government could force
them to cut down drastically
on this advertising budget, but
is reluctant to do so for the
already stated reason of rev-
enue, and because they are
hesitant about stepping on the
toes of the tobacco barons.

Speaking along the same
lines, Dr. Samuel Lipetz of
Edinburgh said that news-
papers and television cannot
advertise the delights of smok-
ing marihuana, but are allow-
ed to bombard old and young
alike with the satisfaction and
style that can come to one only
by puffing on a cigarette.

Both doctors closed with the
following sentiments — “We

of smoking are not kill-joys.
We do not condemn alcohol

drink too much or food be-
cause some people overeat. But
when 4 out of 5 deaths from

result of the use of cigarettes,
then it’s time something was
done about it. Sweden set an
example in 1956 by prohibit-
ing the advertising of all to-
pacco products. Now our com-
munity and our government
have before it the imperative
duty to do something about it

necessary when we see that
the tobacco companies are

here.”

,

OVER-
HiT BY MA

The United Nations has
lation up to the year 2000.
five billion to a high of nearly
then, forty years from now, to
and to provide for its growing
faster than population?

Ss ‘This qttestion

RXIST

S
deals. with the rea
“prophesy poverty,
multiply.

which can be poug

R-POPULATION THEORY

made estimates of the global popu-
The estimates

is the subject of a
fs There a Danger of Qverpopulation?
issue of World Marxist Review. In it t
; etionary philosophy of
hunger and war unless ™

ny other interesting arti
ee ht at the People’s Co-op Bookstore.

JOURNAL

are from a low of
seven billion. Will it be possible
feed this tremendous population
needs? Can production increase

Film Festival.

World Marxist Review,

who advocate the discouraging

simply because some people

lung cancer come about as a}

highly instructive article,
» in the, cutrent, (August)
he author, E. Arab-Ogly,
the Malthusians who
ankind ceases to

cles will also be found in WMR,

In the July edition of the
the
Czech script writer F. B. Kune,
as if in reply to R. S.’s eager
search for realism and human-
ism says: ‘In the pattle for a
truthful representation of real-
ity the socialist cinema has
allies in the capitalist coun-
trise as well. We have the
greatest admiration for the
work of progressive artists of
the west, who keep the flame
of truth burning in men’s
hearts, whose art injects an
invigorating stream into the}
turgid flood of meaningless,
erotic, gangster and sentimen-
tal film trash.”

He then selects Rocco and
his Brothers by Visconti as. one
of the most distinguished
works in the best traditions of
Italian neo-realism. This being
one of the films in the Festi-
val which R.°S. found, pre-
sumably to be so lacking. in
realism.
The Czech writer goes on to

OPEN FORUM

Cuba and history _

Vernon Brown, N. Surrey,
Writes: “History repeats itself,
first as tragedy, second as
farce,” wrote Marx.

In Cuba, the tragedy and
opening episode. Every Amer-
ican schoolboy knows the pic-
ture. Teddy Roosevelt leading
the charge up San Juan Hill,
taking Cuba under the big
stick, Roosevelt wrote at that
time, “just at the moment, I
am so angry with that infern-
al little Cuban republic, that I
would like to wipe its people
off the face of the earth.”
This was about the same time
this. same American Napleon
was threatening Canada with
war over the Alaskan boun-
dary by sending troops there.

Now the second act. Behold
the farce, The U.S., now at the
top of all remaining imperial-
ist systems, has just to huff
and puff, like the big bad
wolf, and the new Cuban s0o-
cial - order comes tumbling
down. -Militarily; the invasion
at the Bay of Pigs, is a small
operation, but politically, how
ae And the diplomatic
ground the U.S. has lost here
will never be recovered.

point out that bourgeois critics
have sounded the death knell
of neo-realism time and time
again. Asserting that it has ex-
hausted itself, and that the
social environment from which
it sprang nas changed and its
authors with it.

It would appear to me that

the silver screen.

the too hasty, scathing judg-
ment of R. S. has done a great
disservice to the deep truths of
the’ neo-realist school, and a
greater disservice to the ideo-
logical war being waged on

It is not Khrushchev who is
outsmarting Kennedy but the
march of history that is beat-

| ing him, |

Now our good shepherd “Fol
low John” bids us follow the
larger footsteps of the footling
Kennedy, link Canada more
closely to the American char-
iot, in other words, join the
OAS and suffer all the future
ignominies and defeats of the
American diplomacy in Latin
America. Let Cana dians
answer “No!”

Bjarnason. 16 pp.

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people’s struggle against

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