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Buying A Microwave Oven?
There is much to say in behalf of buying and using
microwave ovens. They're conveniently quick. A micro–
wave oven can cook severa! large polatoes in only
twelve minutes whereas it might takc from 45 lo 75
minutes to bake those same potatoes in a conventional
gas or electric oven. In just two minutes a left-over roast
can be warmed up. Too, it cos1s less lo cook the same
amount of food in microwave ovens than in conven–
tional ovens because of faster, more efficient heating.
However, microwavc ovcns pose a polential health
hazard because of the ever-threatening possibility of
excess microwave radiation leakage. Eye calaracts, tem–
porary sterility. skin burns and adverse cffects on car–
diac pacemaker implants have been associated wilh
them. Other possible health hazards may exist. lf you
own or plan on buying a microwave oven, keep lhc
following safety suggestions in mind:
Read and follow lhc manufacturer's instruction
manual to the letter. lf possible. have your oven
checked and serviced regularly by a qualified tech–
nician. Keep the oven (door and seals) meticulously
clean. using water and a mild detergent. Never use
abrasive cleaners. Avoid repeatedly peering into thc
window when it is on. Rcmain at least an arm's lenglh
away if possible. Never opcrate it when empty. Never
PLAIN TRUTH August 1974
insert metal utensils or utensils with metal rims inside
the oven. Don't allow children to play near it. Keep it
unplugged when it's not in use.
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Smoke, Smoke, Smoke
Yourself to Death
A persisten! cough is common among cigarette
smokers. lt's so much so. especiaUy among heavy
smokers, that it is accepted as normal. But persisten!
coughing is neither normal nor hcallhy. lt is one of the
warning symptoms oflung cancer, chronic bronchitis and
pulmonary emphysema! lf you have a persisten! cough. you
have cause for alarm. In fact. ifyou smoke, whetheror not
you have a persisten! cough yet, you've gol cause for alarm.
Smoking is a proven health hazard. Cigarette smok–
ing is nol only direclly linked 10 lung cancer, but cancers
of the moulh. larynx. esophagus. urinary bladdcr and
kidney. Also. there is not only a direct association be–
tween cigarettes and respiratory diseascs like chronic
bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema. but hearl auacks.
circulatory diseases and strokes as well. Official commis–
sions and scientific sludies in many countries absolutely
substanliate these smoking and disease facts.
Studies, in facl, link cigarette smoking lo a seventy
percent increase in overall death rates of men and. lo a
lesser cxtent, lhe increased death rates ofwomen, accord–
ing to the American Cancer Sociely.
Men who smoke as few or fewer than 10 cigarettes
per day have a death rate nearly 35 percent higher lhan
nonsmokers. Men who smoke bctween
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and 19 ciga–
rettes per day, less than a pack a day. have a 70 pcrcent
higher dealh rate. Those who smoke belween 20 and 30
cigarettes per day have a death rate 95 percenl higher.
and those who smoke more than 40 cigarettes per day.
over two packs, have a death rate 125 pcrcent higher.
Forty-six percent of all 25-year-old men who smoke
two packs of cigarettes a day can expect to die before age
65. while only 23 percent oflhe nonsmokcrs can expect 10
die before age 65. The life expectancy of a two-pack-a–
day smoker at age 25 is 8.3 years less than a nonsmoker's.
The chances ofa heavy cigarette smoker dying during his
prime are almost twice as great as a nonsmoker's chances.
For your health's sake. if you smoke. quit. lf you
don 't smoke. don 't start.
- Patrick
A.
Parne/1
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