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RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCg Richmond, Virginia June 30, 1964 Witnesses' Recucll Page 22 ilT®0033024 Seen irz Smoke Probe i the teport's apparent fallacies. 01her iammlttee members agreed. 10 8111a fonsldered Last 7ltesday Surgetm l:en. eral Tet•n• IesttBed hrfmr the committee. which fs consideriag 10 bills proposing variout; ways for the federal f:ow•ernmcnt to curtail cigaret snlokin^. Lest lNedne•day. the FTC chairntan. Paul Rand Dixon, testfBed, ar,d announced that thp FW uas issuing a t•ule ts require cJgoret labels and ad• cerlismg to contain u•arnings thvt smoking is a health hasanL '11aP FYY's dpc(sinn NPe ha•rd on the huhlir 11r.alth Service's report on cmrnkfnc, u•hfch was released In Janual;v and which mncluded thnt cica- Ni arm,winG me; ceuxe peala- fmm (anwr and other dI:ea"e, Rap-r,rnlatlar RotMltp @R- IL• •Wilyd ihat "the $mokingimatTfed wrn ha%r ebnut the h.%p,qhP•ia ithal it cau.es can-tsnme morlallur rale as nun- A Richmond newepapEr exec- pfelnP,l In a trlrphonr mlrr- ,,ei 1 1, a, nexk a. Its ecidence;smokci:- uha are fingh•. .'• utN•a '% denunciation of the Pub- llr« ls>I mKhl Ihat lie fccl. 1% %iink% nnd what we are deal• "$o f•Ir as I knou•" afd lic Health Service's IPNS) Dr. Trrrc and Dixon ought to Ing .cith is not so much scien•,Donnahoe. "No one has sug- smoking report vestertlaT raised be t.•called "in ciew of thic nru' afir mcthoil a. lt I,, scienlific~gested that smoking 1< casually the possibility that ta•c major Irs'imony":Irfrrrinc InDonnn• ork:" ~relatrd to matrimony. eaereise. go+vrnment figures may be re• hoe's testimony yeRlerxla,v called to testily before a House Chahmmao Absent Cali" Mideace Shaky i relatfre Incomr, age or type of committee. Bill, he noted. he does not In his analysis of the PHS'ancestrr. and yet ,., all of Criticism of the smoking re- have Ihr authotity to recall report, he said. "Some of the these thincs srrnt ta have a port ramr from Alan S. Dorma• cdlnrsae:- sInce hr was ooly eofdence used to prove the con- strong influenre an Ihe risk of hoe. e%ecuti.•e vice president acting chuirman lor the com•',neclion between cigaret smok-'cancel:" and assLctant publisher of Rich• miller. Thc commirlee's chai:.~ing and lung cancer can also bel ne Richmanders testimony mond Venspapers. Inc., In tea- man is Rep Harris, lR-Arkt :used. perhnp+crithequal rogen• and subsequent questions trom timony before the Ffouse Com- who c•oultl not attend Ihp hear• 'cy'• to prove that there G no committee membera took about merceCotnmftlee, Ing }estetday. such cnnnection." .+an hour anJ a half. Donnahoe, who has been Roberts said he cc•oWd urge, As nn cxummple. Donntilloe Repnsentetlve Roberts safd trained as a statistlcian, told'the recall of Dr. Terry andlsaht the repnrt's statistics'last night that thern are yet 13 scitnecsrs lu bP called be- the commiflep that the P'F1S tr• DLcon, and said the reappear-;ahau• "Ihat Holland. Sa•It¢cttiifo~•r th• crom:niitrc, •'and I port on smokfng and health was ance uf them before the com-i laml. Ffnland and Great $ritaia think attr chairman lRepre• based on statistical methods, mhlec "Is a possibility." Im,.• i Imscr prr c,:pfla ean•~senlathp Hanysl would extend "that can onl,v he described as Lonnahoe, a member of the;sumplim: of cJgarrts than thalthe h-aiings If nerrssary." haphazard end unscientiflc." I American Statistical Associa-, United Suatr., but thal all ha~•e! In other laallntonc yrarr- FalloninR hie lesllmorp, the tion, told the mtturittee that higher mm•taiit) from lung ~lac .eve~.ii physlcians er• committees acting rhafrman. the smoking nPport's statistical cancer." prr.•ed doubt Ihal atati~tical Rep. Roberts /D•Alal said that data "are Internally inconci-t-, lie oi.f. ~ui.l Ilu rrfpn•tlcat.~platfans of amnking aml In a•lew of the po ts raised h,i' ent,' lead to umpaconablc Im- claimrrl cm•irlations like• csncer are %Dhd enouuh v, cun- Donnshoe, the S n GenPrrt pfications. and are conuadic-• ••('ignrrt amnkcrs aho take Jenln cigarctr. and the chairman of the Fe4- tory not only with other re- hravy exercise have a lowrr eral 7Yade CotaID$ston ,(F,1ti) ~rarch of a competent neturr murtali:•• rale then non-smok- Doubang Phyaldans ought to be recalled before the htll also with other facLc et•c who take none." I 71hpse ph.%sicians included committee to explain some ol knot%u lu be true." '•C'i:arrt Fmoker% amongl Dr'rnomas H. Buford a St. , Louis surgron; Dr. Henry 1. Ru•`ek, a heart specialist for- mcrlr with thp Public Health Setvice Hospital al Staten I-land. X. Y; Dr. .1111ton H Rosenblal l ul 1ru- York \b-Ji• cal Cbllege. and Dr. L. Hcnry Garland of Ihe UnheNly of California medical school• The United States Agricul- IuIY Department, meanuhile, reported that in Ihe fira six months of this year, rigarct consumption by Americans was R3 per trnt foarr then in the same period last year. This wac somr 16 billion cigarets Icss. 1'tvductiun of lohacco fnr pipes and roll-youroun riga- rels Increased about one-aLNlh. Sales of regular end smalf cicars Werc uo sboul 12 ner cent. And plr+duclion i.r chew In~ tobaccn f18'1@~R^d slightl}•. Tlre department said clgarel consumption dropped sharply afler fhp IPpnrt was i[411ed, probably 15 to 20 per cent, hat the severity hsc eac.vl Mf clncr.