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r s J 0 ~ fti~ In addition, I got the impression' that some people really , lived in "cloud-cuckoo land" because many of the `proposed research ideas.went out of the way to produce experimental ' results which would be biased against the cigarette. Es ~~ -,;pecially Dr• ''Field tended to bend over backwards iri pro- i•~ '= ,,'..posing smokingi'conditions to be imposed on experimental~~ ~~ animals which were so severe that they could not be-taken ~.~t 45- as representative of the human situation• ^ He belongs to the school of scientists who want to get "clear-cut end- 5 `';,~ points " - no matter what they mean • ~~y ~ r ~ `E ~~.vrei +F i jl.+ ~} a 9'= L~ ~ z s+~:~ +k+~gf<~~~~~~.r ~~t + a~ `:°t t o?: - .rytyl4~'°~ar .. , 'r :.,'. ...'. . ~ .:i..,~, +In the end we'derived some_consensus,.7the:resulting paper, a ; r ~ ;.. , 'Finding ourselves in this situation, it was very difficult to embark on a constructive 'discussion at all as the philo-~ "With very few exceptions, we found that deficiencies ,in know- .,;ledge'related to the lack of'research concerning the many other 4f:'.`co-variables besides smoking that are statistically associated `}4 :with the same range of diseases - most of which are likely to have multi-factorial etiology. :The inost important of these 4 ` co-variables are : diet habits (e.g. vitamin intake), weight,'-_, eight, sex, personal history of diseases, average'amount of . 'sleep, fitness (e•g. exercise, sports);'alcohol consumption, '~ medications, drug abuse, personality score, ethnic background,'-'. fi" A ~ occupation, income, family size, history of diseases within ~,-the family, hobbies, ' marriage/divorce:" _HClmut Gaisch 't~'"'.t~._~i; Enclosure draft prepared by Dr.' Bentley ~~~ cc Drs • R• B • Seligman . ~! M Hausermann ~ r. P. Isenring ~ ~ sophies differed so widely. was edited by Dr•:Bentley. 7' Although the whole thing is not i.very satisfactory, I would be prepared to accept.the paper~° '. . ... . ;if lines 29 to 33 were replaced by the following paragraph :` . .-.~. R3 ~(.'~re}~ :~~ ~.Perhaps you could read through the draft prepared by Dr.-Bentljey and let me have additional comments that I might include.with~ Fmy answer to him. Perhaps you could do this by telex as I have to answer. Dr: Bentley by 22nd August. ; " Y , Page ~ , , rs. H.R. Wakeham and R. Fagan August 12, 1977/HGA/map