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DENV~,.'-~i POST ; Denver, Cblo><'ado December 10, , 1961 I~~~IEW T4QACCO STUDY Aowever; they cito several studies showtng, that this could b& so beeausn of nunierous factors, lncluding,:. Increased knowledge of certain diseases, longer life ex, pectancy; iniprovcd dia,^no:;tdb methods; increased zeal' on the part of the medical profession and )alty; and the num- ber of potential canriidat-s for cancer of the lung Is ateadiiy increasing bi:rAuse of'the burgeoning population. ; -View Challenge4 Vigorously ~= The Arnericaa Cancrr Socicty=leadlnQ opponents ot' the , HtI American tolaaceo industr•y has jumped into the ring johacco indui'tiry.ln ihe hattie-has contended for ye9rs, how- for another round in its continuing slugfest with those iver; that ercessivn cif:arotte smoking Is the major con- who contend that ci ;ar•ettes cause lung cancen 7ibuting, cause of cancer of the lung. : A study relcasefl Saturday by the Industry showed there 'l7ie indu:try, along with some scientists, has vigorously Is no evidenre behiind' such a contention. ,. challenged t'us, vir.-:v. The study released' Saturday fa the The study saxs, in effect: Go on andi srnoke smoke, Iatest ot the industn y arwmentb; ~amoke those cigare ntes bMcause they have nothing te"8d"R°~C~ K • RIGDON and Mikircho([ say the quesUon of whether lung cancer. 0" the lung nctually !s lncreastng and lf so In fact, the slndy sava,.although there have been counf, cancer _, to 't`hat extent, rem-i~~s utianrivered . tbes theories oxplnL~tng tha cause oi lung cancer, the cause . causes rtll remutn a complete mystery. They contend tha~t, a mong other things, w,,at reafty was or entitled "Cancer o[' the Lung 1930 to 1960: lhng cancer before 190U was associated with such fAetors The study, A Revfew;"' was oonducted by R. H. Rigdon and Helen -is ' tubercula`,4s; syphillis, pulmonary scarring and heredity,. Kirchoff, department of pathology, University _ o! _ Texas Many co~rclatirnos have been made between~the recordied Medical Branch, Gsilvesion: deaths from lung cancer and the-consumption of tobacco, _ they state, but ,,he authenticity of death certificates fot! Reference Wo'rkS Cafe4 establishing the cause of deaths has been seriously ques- iew cttes 455' reference works and covers varlous tloned•" They point out that in many cases these ceriiflca- The rev ~nns o! dcath are c~roncous . factbrs that have been studied 1n regard to lung cancer. Included are tuberculosis, influenza and other chest ail- The researchers also state that the consumptton ot e1ga- rettes 1s mul-h hi~;her 1n the ilnlted $tates than In ments, occupational exposures, atmospheric pollutants and 1~ngland r ut that tlio treqnency ot' hmg cancer' Is higher In Englana, tobacco use: _ - tfmn tn thn Ilnited 9tatrs. They eoncludet HE study was aided, by a grant from the Tobaccn.In- "pbviously fmrm this review (ot'the 455'reference works) - ditstry Research lrbu:~ciL !t is •evfdcnt that the etinloGy (cause) and the pathogenesis The authors, in their Introduction, stlste that althout;h, (developmen+:) of pulmonary (lung) cancer in man, i1 not al0y unknown,'~ ~ + ,~ " -cancer of the lung was "practlc" 100 years ~own. 'ago and "a,~•arc dVe.ase'" 50 years ago, it now has a higher And that, obv ioosly, 1s why the tobacco industry !s so, mortality ra:.e In n:alea than any other eaneerous disease. pllased a•ith the shady. • -~'.-~.: . .. . . . '~ .. - . .- .•~ ~ . . . -.~. . . ~., -._ )ty GRt•%G' PEARSON 111rnver Pont 9t6:[t Writer GFtEE1QE'VILI,E SUN ~~ Greeneville, Tenne!s~see December 19, 1961 10 03 • 3 37:~.~ - _ung Cancer:M'uch V"Vritten, -tr = ut Causes Remain MCystery {, + Washington - Lung cancer has Dr. R. H. Rigdon and'He1en Ku•ch- iaia factors that have been studied ant 'to tobacco use and healta ' °' beeni written about more often, ini off t'including tuberculbsis; chest ai1- a] so includes articles on lung ean- the medical and lay press, than, While the scientists give consid.F,mentk occupational' exposures, aG Ser atatlisties, heart sti:dies and a• any ether form of cancer. 141rany, erable attention'to reports linking mospheric pollutants and tohaccoi :'eport linking'tuberculosis to lung' suspects have been studied, many, tobacco to lung',cancer, they said=ufe,,_ - Pneer causation. ~' • questions raised, but the causesi the smoking theory of causationl done in Nesr "O bviously from this review iC l One heart study, remain a myslcryis based largely on atatistibal atu- •s evident that the etiology and Zealand found no difference tn , That isCthe conclusion of' twol dies that vary widely in reported e patho;enesis ef, pultnonary blood cholesterol levels among University of Texas ,cientists who findings. = k cancer in man is not knou n," said middle-aged smokers andi ' non- reviewed the literature nni lungl "Since smoking is such a eona• report' also cited studies question- smokerE. A British, study, [ound cancer published lrom iu:W lo, mon habit and lung cancer is re- •ing Whether lunQ' cancer incid! no association between tobacco, 1"60, it was reporbedl llxl y in the latively infrequent in those whc~ enoe is actually on, the increase smoking and the level o[I fatty >. publication Tobacco and 1Nealth. smoke, there must be someas yet and, if, so, to what' extent substances in the bloodl of' older u" ~„ puahed by The Tob3rso InsGi, unknown factors that entkr into Tobacco and He~lth which sum men: . ,, tute; Inc. lh:: mechanisma" they said. Theil .~~ari,~s publiqfied nrscanch relav The scie*LiaJO 49pagp reviaw:i With 4M references covers va -,,,l- „, a .'