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Television ( WCBS-TV Network 10:00 a.m. April 26, 1962 Cigarettes-Lung Cancer Discussed on CALENDAR C This half-hour morning program devoted parts of two sessions, April 5 and April 26, to a discussion between Dr. John F. W. King, an offical of the American Cancer Society, and Dr. Milton B. Rosenblatt, associate professor of medicine, New York Medical College. Dr. King presented the usual A.C.S. case against smoking. Dr. Rosenblatt said~the rise in reported lung cancer deaths was due to improved diagnostic procedures and an older population. He also challenged some of Dr. King's other points. In closing April 5, the moderator, Harry Reasoner, offered his own comments. Here are a few excerpts: "I smoke too much myself and I wish I didn't... But the way most of us smoke is a prime symptom of our compulsive age... This is a problem of philosophy and not of medicine and it seems to some people that if you quit smoking because you are afraid of lung cancer you may be quitting for the wrong reason... "The idea of trying to outguess life, to avoid everything that might conceivably ever injure your life, is a peculiarly dangerous one, I think... A man makes a sort of deal with life. He g ives up things because they are undignified or piggish or immoral. If life asks him to cringe in front of all reasonable indulgence, he may at the end say life is not worth it, because for the cringing he may get one extra day or none; he never gets eternity." Some comrnentary by Drs. Rosenblatt and King on their second appearance: ` Dr. King: "I think it's important for us to recall that the conviction held by the American Cancer Society is that shared by the majority of scientists and medical men throughout the country and for this reason I find it hard to justify the word controversy, because of this heavily weighted~opinion on one side:.." Dr. Rosenblatt: ". ..I ndeed t•bere is a controversy, no matter how heavily weighted the opinion s.ay be. Sometimes the weight -is not in the scientific data but in the activities of the public relations department. "The basis of the controversy is the concept that this is a new disease...the facts are that this disease was known to man for 150 years... "...it is general knowledge that the grants that they (the tobacco industry) give out are applicable to any type of scientific research and not restricted to anything necessarily to do with~tobacco..." Dr. King: "I would support that." At one point in the second program, following a commercial, Reasoner said: "I'm talking to Dr. John F. W. King, of the American Cancer Society, and to Dr. Milton B. Rosenblatt, an authority on lung cancer." ~