Bliley American Tobacco Co
Confidential summary prepared by American outside counsel enclosing materials selected by counsel reflecting American outside counsel's opinions and advice regarding health litigation.
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- Summary
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- A,B,C
- 02,03
- Date Loaded
- 22 Apr 1998
- Author (Organization)
- Chadbourne & Parke 1
- Folder
- Smoking & Cancer
Annotations
- 1. Chadbourne & Parke Author (Organization)
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On this he concluded:
"Our flndln~s are considered to bB fully
consistent %,Ith the hypothesis that
inhalation of tobacco smoke is an Important
factor in the causation of bronch~genlc
ear cln~ma."
19~9
Berkson published an article entitled "The
Statistical Investigation of Smokin~ and Cancer of the
Ltmg" in t~e ~rch 15, 1959 issue of the Proceedings of
the Staff Meetings of the M~yo Clinic. }~e pointed out
that
"the question of the cause of ~aacer is
basically a biologic, not a statistical
problem • • ~.-
In J~d.y, 1959 the report of the British Empire
Cancer Campaign for 1958 contained the statement:
"Experiments over the ~ast five
to induce lung cancer in mice and rats by
exposure to stron~ concentrations of
cigarette s~ke provided "a strlki~
negative reset"."
&~argeon General Burney stated the position of
the U.8. Public Health Service In an article entitled
"Smoking and L~mg Cancer" in the Novembez 28, 195~ issue
of t~e ~ournal of the A.M.Ao He state~ that
"The weight of evidence at present implicates
smokin~ as the principal etiological factor
in the increased incidence of lung cancer."
The editor of the Journal of the A.M.A. commented
on Burney's article in the December 12, 1959 issue saylr~
"Neith~r the pro~cn~nts nor the opponents of
the amokir4 ~h~ry ~ve ~ficieat evid~ce
to ~r~nt tae ass~ptlon of an ~l~r-~ne
aut~rita~Ive ~sit~n".
In a letter to Editor publishe~ in the Februax, y
27, 1960 Berk~cn stated that the Burney article
"is characterized by an imprecision of language
and thought that renders inaccurate almost
every important point it deals with."
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1960
A World ;~Ith Crg~ni~a~ion Study Group
reported
"The Study. Group unanimously agreed that
there was no ~eason bo modify the conclusions
reached by thess experts that the sum total
of the evidence avallable today was most
r~asonably Interpr@ted as indicating
cigarette smo klr4~
in the Increasln~ incidence of Iz~an carcinoma
of th@ lunE.
Dorn and Levin represented the Unltsd States.
The re~ort was entitled "EpldermioloKy of Cancer of thin
or the stated policy of the World ~lealth Organization.
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