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_.'`ul. ,f.Y .. ~...t+ .4-4 . . . .. KAl'iSqS CIT7( `Kansas City, Missouri ;. 4ly 2 1962 ,, Hardy: Did you ever know SEES NO SMOKING E TO A CANCER Docfor Tasfifin for f?efanaa 3 : at Cigarette Damaye uit Trial. 'NOT EVEN A SUSPECT'~ Smoke Could Not MivwGottan ¢ --fo Affected Tissuwa, Sp~ ~ elalistlSaya. A retired i specialist testified today that he does not believe "smok'ing can be considered~ as a suspect, much less as a cancer in the throst area is into the area where Rosslb cause" of caaoer in John T:.~~ation of the wit. pW~i a plaintiff contends he =eer allegedly occurred. Ross!a case.~ . I~ suHered the disease as the re• He filled his moutb with water Dr. Louis Clerf, St. Peters It has been established l by suit of smoking Pht7ip Martut from a glass on the court burg;,P1a., was the first witness Hardy, through questioning, that ~garettes; clerk'~A table and breathed at for the defense in the U. S. Dr. C1erI was a member of sav- - Dr. Lauren V. AeJterman,the least foor times, then swa11 Disttict court damaee suit of eral professional organizations, aeeond defense witness to ap- lowed: Ross against the .Philip Morris 1aooe of which had publicly en-- pear in the damage suit aga~ Dr. Ackermani who was company. dor3ed the theory that smoking the tobacco company, added >IVatching closely, commented Ross I. eontending that amok- can cause caneer: that it would be impossible to "that was a very nice swallow." ,ingeaused his cancer. Field, in questioning Dr, get smoke into the food tract. Hardy aasked I the doetrn` what '`Preaented as FaperL I'Clerf, determined that neither Nor could Lyman Field, at- R'ould have happened if the the organization said out. torney for John T. Rosa, shake -water had eddied around the David Hardq, attormey for had Ph1ip Morr3s; devoted 40 min ~t that smoking could not the dactor, ifrom his tesimony larynx or swirded aroundwhere : utes at the opening of directez-j~'~ eanoer:. during crossc:aminationj Ross's cancer occurred. amination to the qualifving of. The cross-examination was tb Extensive Experience. '"You wouldn't have beenable Dr. Clerf as an authority andd have been resumed at 2 o+elock: David 'to testtfy,;" the pathologist re- H~p•' ~g -plied. i e=Dert on otolarvn go1ogy. Philip Morris, brou ! out m-. the juri trial before Judge Floyd At this point Hardy pulled a B. Clhsoa in U. S. DistmM ackage of Philip Morris cigar- court that Dr. Ackerman saw, `~ from his pocket and asked ,as many as 17,000 cancer surg;-Judge Gibson if he would relax tosl specimeaa a year whilr the "no smoking rule is the VuItr00m for "ODepUff.•' .)erning as pathoiogist in We Fld jd to hi eum.s feet and pfassac6usetts cancer 6'ospital.' that Hardy's proposal • Later, between 1940 and I 194E p,~d be an improper demoo - ~r. Ackerman was paWologi,, :atration. The jurist uptueld the inct part of We time was dlrec• objeatibz . jor of the Missc;a~i cancer hos• Under questioning by Hardy, pital in Columbia. He now is Ackerman told' an iastnuctor in pathology at We ~' the court that the region in which Ross school of medicine at Washing•¢llegedly suffered the disease is ton university, St: Louis. •pormally closed and the only CootiDUing in an eHort fn V it i td e opensso penmit[oo establi.sh Dr. Ackerman as an and drink to pass thmughto the Hardy sh' expert,owed We doc- atomach. tor is the United States repre- The witness emphasized his sentative to the International testimony related to cancer of }7nion Against Cancer, the path- the digestive tract and' not the o7agist on a 1Wmemb~ com- r~p~alory tract . +hission of the American Caneer During cross-examination by iociety which determines the Fild D Ack ererman acknowl .. awarding of grants for research. edged he has been paid $1,g75 and has taughtand lectured in fover the lact four years in con- , a dozen forei¢n countries. sulation feea in eonnection, with the case: It was pointed out that Dr. Clerf, aa a teacher, has in '~` ~ - strueted some 4,f100 doctors-in addition to between 800 and 900 : apeciaL•~t5-in throat ailments. Dr. Clerf said he has per- formed I more than 1,200 throat operations for cancer and at least 1,400 or 1,500 major sur- gical procedures on the larynx: "In i Digpstive Tract." Hardy saidiWe defense is con- tending that the location of the cancer in Ross's throat was a part of the digestive traot rather than of the respiratbry tract. It is contended Hardy said, that it would be, impossi+ ble dor smoke or air to get into We location because It is int~ . possible for a person to swallow and breathe at the same time. Dr. Clerf agreedJ adding that We, action of breathing obliter- ates the sinus+like area in which the cancer was present. Hardj~ askedspecifically whether a person could breathe ndswallow at the same time. Dr. Clprf replied: "I don'tbelieve one could do lt short ofalot of practice, and prnbahiry• on-ddb'l do,it then." fi Distinct Natare" anyone who could do it? NO . Dr. Clerf: No. NO i'n CANCER I1 UNKP"rst commenting on caacer Is it while / in gmeralJ,Dt. Ackerman said Hardy: possible each particularcancer in each amak~g~ ha~e amake eddy PATHOLOGIST SAYS parti~ilar arg in each par. and swirl and leave deposits in ticuler looationanhas its owa dis the site we are discussing? tinct li(e 6isWr y ... fmokinq Mot' Ih:Clert: I doD1Y think so. Tied! to Typa" g~y asked the aiID~ If Hardy; While breathing, ofThroat Cancar, Doctor cancer is many diseases- woild air or smoke go into the Tistifios "Yes," replied the doctor, "in area? ' c ID9 file I have 300ff cases" , Dr. Clerf: It is not an air aoa- ,t8in;ng space during reapira- "NQNE IN FOOD TRACT' ~;aAacancer >:errDa~t ~~~ tion, asit is claaed. ' wfiolly within the gesttrointes Assist From Photos Dr. Lauran V. Aekarman If ~e tract and said there was E n l a r g e d photographs, ~0 Witness for Philip Mor- Z•~~lutely no evidence of can- inchea high, of tissues taken ria In Trial. cer anywhere,else." Ross, he from Ross were used for illus „ ~dtl did not have cancer of trations in Dr. Clerd's testimony. A pathologist with dong ezperl-. e s Shortly before the noon recess ence in cancer treatment testi .. Hardy then performed a dem at 12:30. o7clook, Lyman Field, fied today there is no relation ~ti'ation that he said was to attorney for Ross, star~Lis • between cigarette smoking and ~how that smoke could not get can, , ".'2=:..•..aruJrt.....+.ny'r•`_ riwc. ._•.~M:~ i- .