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The September 12th World Telegram & Sun storypappeared only in early editions,, since it was almost,identical to the June 25th story. ~ . , 003 S3:-7,14F WORLD TELEGFtAM & SUN New York, New York June 25, 196a bocto'rs Would ~'F o rb i d All. Ads for"Tob ir,ociated rres, _- lalso harms - the heart-blood. ' CHICAGO, June 21---Fivg physicians today urged laws to forbid any advertising for sale of'tobaceo products. And they said every pack of cigarets should be labeled: "This is harrnfull to health: " Dr. E. E. Rockey and, assa ciates of' New York reported a, new study, in dogs, which they said provided another link in, ;the evidence that' cigaret! +smoking is one cause of lung !cancer. Speaking at the American -`11ledical Association's annual meeting, Dr. Rockey said the total\evidence "is overwhelm- vessel system and Is a- major contributing cause to chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a disease in which air sacs in the lungs lose their eiastici•ty. I They reported exlerinierits Ini which cigaret smoke con- densatre was repeatedly rubbed oni the lung tissues of dogs, and results compared with gps whose lungs were merely ~ubbed, or dogs not treated at all. - . Of' 1'30: dogs rubbed' with snlokr solids, two showed t'p+ mors, 25 had precancerous changes, three had localized cancer, and one an invasivee measures, including air. inten•ic, . . ancer, they said. -0 _ . sive educational campaign. on -smoking. ; "At the present time, simi, 1gr measures are in prepara+ tion in England. In Italy, there Is already an effective law for- bidding advertising of any to- bacco products,"' he said in a report 'co-authoriied by Drs. F. D. Speer; S. A. Thorhpson, K J: Ahn, and'~ T. Hirose of' the 11iew York Medical College -Metropolitan Medical Cen- ter. Their report said smokinp NEW YORK WpRI;D-TEILEGRANi & SUN New York, New York September 12, 1962 Cigaret, Curbs Again Asked.' By 5 Doctors. By A'LEX BEhT5O1IJ Five New York medical re. searchers, reporting to the international College of Sur- geons, today repeated their call for "decisive legislative steps by the government to curb the rising, consumption of cigareta." In x~ report to be submitted at the college'S 13th biennial .congress at the Waldorf. Astoria„ the doctors noted tiiat some dogs they treated with cigaret smokecond'ensate developed lung cancers indis- tinguisitatlle under the micro- scope fromi human limg cancer. "A pathologist, ii shown a speei'men of this cancer, couldn't tell! whether it came lrom a dog or a human being," said Dr. Ernest E. Rockey of, the New York Medical College, head of the research project. The group's study, similar to the report the doctors pre- sented at the American Medi. cal Assn. convention in Chicago last June, concluded that "evidence is sufficient" to, warrant legislative action. The report noted that; s•rpong 130 dogs' whose bron chial tubes were treated with cigt~et smoke condensate, pre. eancerous tissue changes oN curred' and four caQ?s oflactual iung cancer developed. A spokesman for the To- bacco Industry Reseaz'ch Com- mittee said; without having seen the latest report, that the research group was "not deal- ing with normall smoke but with a condensate." O He maintained that' In all O expe.riments with animals in W which smoke inhalation ` methods were applied no cases veloped. The report was signed' by ~; Drs. Rockey, Tei~uo Hflrose, Frank D. Speer, Samuel A. F0b Thompson and K. Jung Aln. -(Z , ing," and urged preventive Ut of lung, cancer had been de• ~ ~