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°..r STATE OF CALIFORNIA-HEALTH AND WELFARE AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2151 BERKELEY WAY BERKELEY 94704 May 12, 1964 Mr. George V. Allen President and Executive Director The Tobacco Institute, Inc. 808 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington 6, D.C. Dear Mr. Allen: r EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor This is in response to your letter of May 4 concerning the unpublished materials which we made available to the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health We supplied the data from two studies which we expect to report in the next several months. The format was specified by the Committee for comparison of several such studies. We found that the Committee used our data and interpreted it in strict accordance with our own under- standing of it. At the present time, we do not wish to give our unpublished data any further circulation. We plan to publish in the near future our data on the relationship of cigarette smoking, certain occupations and resi- dence in areas with "California-type" community air pollution to mor- tality from lung cancer and other diseases. We will be glad to bring our reports to your attention. Sincerely yours, ~ Lester Breslow, M.D., Chief Division of Preventive Medical Services