Council for Tobacco Research
Cigaret Blame for Cancer Is Questioned [Three Doctors Question Whether Smoking Causes Lung Cancer. Investigators Validity Challenged.]
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- 25 Sep 1995
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- Ctrmn00014501-5129
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Cigaret Blame,
For Carcer
Is Questioncd
wa,hin^tnn - Thrcc doctonl Cotttradktion Cltc/
tn!d CsmRrcq, t(:Ja% tAcre "cl,ll Rep. J. J. Pickle (DTexl taid
1, no cicnufic proof that ap'
arrt mnkln8 causes lunq c^nthcir statc'mcnta cnntradictM
~
ccr. Ithe majority Of tcstlmocrv the
"Cach %idc prcunt< om~ commtttee had received from
hichlv persuasiva. onfli-lm.^.!the medical prufcssion.
ar.umenL%. hut neithcr can nf' Whum are we going tJ be.
.(cr uncqmvncal sclcntlfit pr:a(~lttve?" Pickle asked. I won-
dcr it we.sh0uidn't have an in
that smidun¢ does or dnea nct .
cause cancer of the lune." r,idlvestigation D1 the investigaton
Dr. Thomas H. Brcm. rnA:r to find anmf>, facts of our r.ar:'
men of the Unrvcr<nv rif ti.wrh Yesterday the committee
Un California mcdicina dcIhcard Dr. Irving teidman, a
artment. Univenity of Pennsylvanial
iN. Y. Patholo st pathology profcxsor, say :te of-
tt ~ fcn this conclusion to his med.
1f, ciaim there ia now %ul'I ical students: To be on the safe
fic,cnt scientific evldcncc in cs
tablish that ciRarct smokinR
caumc~ diicase is in my upr~wa
unluulficd." added Dr. 5ht!RCepttbie person.
(lnn C. Snmmerc. a pathol1M+t
and tcacher at Lenox Hill Hn
pital in Now York.
"Sclcntlhcallv. cigaret %muk
ing has n)t been proved to be
a health hazard at all," S.im
mcn tc,uficd.
A third doctar told thc Ifuuae
,CummCrcc Cuminqtec that
touch curbr on agarets mlqht
tilcaJ the public to increase con.
wmpuon of alcohol and illegal
;idruc,.
"c phvacian. Dr. Ronald
Okun. dircctor n- clinical phar
m.tculuRv at CcdarsSinai Medi.
,iul Crntcr in U» AnBcles, also
I said he had found "no pcrsuer
dl%lvr evidence that cigaret smoft
r causcs lung cancer."
All AII three doctnrs appcared at
rnr ~n~~lat,nn of tuhacco inter.
T iesu a., the committee neared the
diend of three weekii of hearings
nlconccrnintt ciRaret labeling and
e; health Queations.
side. amume that heavy ciZar
ct smokinR may he a weak can
cerproduclnl agent in a sus-
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