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f, Jard eon~ c ~ G ahn PUBLIC RELATIONS COUNSEL andAssociates,kC. P. 0. BOX 523 • 13 LINCOLN ROAD • GREAT NECK, N.Y~. 11021 •(212) 895-7445 FOR: THE COUNCIL FOR TOBACCO RESEARCH-U.S.A., Inc. FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1973 NEW SMOKING-HEALTH STUDIES BOOST TOTAL TO $23-MILLION' 3W New York -- Scientific research into smoking and health was expanded in 1972 with~the award of 18 new grants, several con- tracts and renewals of continuing projects, The Council for To- bacco Research-U.S.A., Inc. announced today. The awards raise to $23,000,000 the research appropriations of The Council and its predecessor organization. A total of 468 original grants and numerous renewals have been made to 283 in- dependent scientists since the research program~began in 1954. The Council's program,, which has resulted' in the publication to date of more than 1,000 reports in medical and scientific jour- nals, is aimed at finding definitive answers to~the questions that have been raised about smoking and health. The new grants include studies dealing with lung c4ncer, viruses and cancer, heart disease,, and chronic pulmonary ailments. The Council does no research itself but provides financial support for scientists who work in their own medical schools, hospitals and research institutions. It makes awards after ap- plications are reviewed by a Scientific Advisory Board current- ly consisting,of 11 physicians and scientists. Three scientists have joined the Board recently. They are Dr. William U. Gardner, E. K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy, Yale University School of Medicine, N!ew Haven, Conn.; Dr. Hans Meier, Senior Staff Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me.; and Dr. John P. Wyatt, Professor and Head, Department of Pathology, University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. William F. Rienhoff, Jr.,, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md., and C a Board member since its establishment, went on emeritus status. ~ (Attached is a list of the scientists who received the new ~ grants, their institutions, and their project titles.) ~ CD

2. Recipients of new grants, their institution~s, and the titles of their research projects: ANTHONY A. ALBANESE,, Ph.D., Director of Laboratories, The Burke Rehabilitation Center, White Plains, N.Y. "Effect of ciga- rette smoking,on serum ribonuclease, red blood cell creatinee andicyclic AMP'levels in man." BENJAMIN BELL, M.D.,, Director, and CHARLES L. ROSE, Ph.D., As- sistant Director, Normative Aging,Study,, Veterans Administra- tion Outpatient Clinic, Boston, Mass. "A smoking research study in the Normative Aging Study." BARUJ BENACERRAF, M.D~., Chairman, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston. "Control of specific cellular and hu- moral immune responses to neoplastic and non-neoplastic tissues." CARLTON K. ERICKSON, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Kansas, Law- rence. "Mechanism of learning facilitation by nicotine." LARS FRIBERG, Mi.D., Department of Environmental Hygiene, The Karol- inska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. "Epidemiological studies on the.Swedish Twin Registry." PAUL HAMOSH', M.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology and Bio- physics, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, D.C. "Effect of smoking on the 'small airways."' HERBERT B. HERSCOWITZ, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Georgetown University, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Washington. "The role of the macrophage in the immune re- sponse: effect of tobacco products on macrophage function." JEROME KLEINERMAN, M.D.,St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland, 0. "Ex- perimental emphysema: the effect of prolonged dust and nitro- gen dioxide exposure on the physiologic and morphometric para- meters of the hamster lung,." HERBERT McKENNIS, Jr., Ph~.D.,, Professor of Pharmacology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond~. "Biological activity of tobacco smoke components and allied substances."' CHARLES MITT'KAN, M.D., Director, Department of Respiratory Diseases, City of Hope N'ational Medical Center, Duarte, Cal. "Hereditary susceptibility to bronchitis-emphysema." GEORG B'. NEURATH, Professor, Hamburg, West Germany. "Kinetics of nitrosamine formation in tobacco smoke." (!more )

3 TIMOTHY J. REGAN,, M.D., Professor and Director, Division of Cardio- vascular Diseases, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark. "'Variables affecting the cardiovascular responses to chronic smoking." RONALD P. RUBIN, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn. "The action of nicotine on the adrenal gland." WAYNE L. RYAN, Ph.D.,, Professor of Biochemistry and Research Pro- fessor of Obstetrics and'Gynecology, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha. "The 3', 5' cyclic monophosphate system in carcinogenesis.'1 LUCIO SEVERI, M.D., Director, Institute of Morbid Anatomy and Histol- ogy, Division of Cancer Research,, University of Perugia, Perugia,, Italy. "Attempts to identify the viral agent(s)' responsible for sheep-lung,adenomatosis and to transfer this neoplastic disease to rodents." THEODORE A. SLOTKIN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. "Maturation of' the adrenal medulla: catecholamine stores in normal and hyper- tensive rats.'R SHELDON C. SOMMERS, M.D., Director of Laboratories, Lenox Hill Hos- pital, New York City. "Studies of human lung and ovarian car- cinomas." JAMES TRAVIS, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, Athens. "Biochemistry of chronic ob- structive lung disease." -0-