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.r.~.........,.,.. ~~.._. C •BIO-RESEARCH CONSULTANTS, Ilvc: F. MpM6UPGER, M. O!. D.-c/o• P. BERr,r£l0, Ph..0., D-elo. ol RbaeereN, . . CCN, LIAfIICN .- _.RESto'RC 11 UE:vEI'J'VMEN7_ 9 COMMERCIAt AVENUE CAMBCIDI.E, MA$$LCMUSE'7?$OZI/1 t6i'1188a-8735 ' February 20, 1974 William U. Gardner, Ph. D. Scientific Director The Councill for Tobacco Research - U.S.A., Inc. 1110 East 59th Street New York, New York 10022 Dear Bill: Receipt of your letter of February 11, 1974, pr mpts me to rectify certain of your statements expressed therein, in particular, in regar& to,alleged "mi'stakes, and distortions"' in my recent letter to you, of which I sent copies to some of the tobacco companies. Since you sent copies of your letter ofl February 13th to these companies, I' now am compelled to:point out to them the inaccuracies of your letter. Our complete report t'~o you was not supplemented with photographs since this would have unduly increased the costs of that report and since you~ and your associat''es had seen lantern slides of most'of the induced laryngeal lesions, and were thus well aware of their morphology. You~have known of the availability of thils material for a long time, and'. Dr. Sommers hadl a chance to examine in detail several of the originall microscopic slides. I am glad'to hear that you now desire to "expedite our deflinitive publication". This is in contrast to your past attitude when wE• were told by the Council's staff that more details were needed every time w•e suggested to prepare a manuscript. Your implication that II would' make a"fragrnA -ntari or imprecise publication"' is incorrect, to say the least, and without fnund:oion, for which I demand an apology. You know very welil that these results have been "in process of d'efinitive publication" for a lung tinte. B;,.•er}'thln,L, that will be published is contained in our final report sent to you, Septenal wr 24, 1973'. I

William U. Gardner, Ph. D. -2- c February 20, 1974 ' I agree that the hamster does not respond to smoke inhalation with formation of lung,cancer. However, the unexpected finding of a high incidence of7aryngeal cancer in smoke-exposed Syrian hamsters of certain inbred strains (higher than obtained under comparable conditions in randori-bre&hamsters by Dontenwill) presents a: lead, the active pursuit of which The Councili for Tobacco Research owes to the general public. In view' of the substantial, money spent by CTR at our institution to foster capability of smoke inhalation technology, and in view of our discovery of a new technology directed to a smoke-associated respiratory carcinoma, your decision not to continue this work with us seems indefensibl'e and wasteful from the point of view of the cigarette industry; it saems irrespon- sible from, the point of view of the general public. It could be inferred that you, wish to suppress, rather than to encourage, scientific iiivest'igation directed at the second most important smoke-associated respiratory carcinoma of man. Your'girrCerely, FH:jk _F_re.ddh• Hosnbu ger, M. D. President an Director t

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