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i Hatli`IM TRIBUNE ~~ New York, New York .j.r0 r~'t,,. September 21, 1962 .. Tv REvtEW , 'The T een-Age Smoker' at the relation between eiga- own Independent mind, Drs rett,e smoking and fatal' dis-;,Greene said ' emphatically ease, particullZrly lung can- , that he "certainly did' not"' cer. Although the title, "The belleve that, cigarette smok- Teen-Age Smoker,"'suggested Ing eaused, lung cancer and a limited area of discussion, he went on to say that those the program actually ranged who did were "warriors over the entire field, of ciga- against' pleasure."' -I. would, rettes and health. dearly love to think that Dr. Conceivably the tttle: and;, Greene ia;right. a certain amount of emphasis. on the problem of smokuag,by `Mtsrepresentntion' the young, was a sop to the - -- tobaeco companies: who pour;' Charged by Allen . - By Jack lams 1lndustry ReseaYch Commit~-~ "CBS Reports" made its' I~' They too1F the position, iia • seasonal return to Channel 2'i general, that,statustlcs cah be' Wednesday night with every I misleading and there Is still Indication that it proposes much to he learned'. to go its own hard-hit'ting.. The most effective spokes- controversial way, pulling man for the "Opposition" was no punches and' sparing Dr. Harry S. N. Greene, no.sacred cows. 1 chairman of the Department Ttte first of tlais fall's doc- I of Pathology at Yale Uni-" versitq'S School of' Medicine. umentaries took a long, A down-to-earth man, who searching and objective look was evidently speaking hisi millions into television ad!- vertising every year. If1 so, it Georqe V: Allen, president .. a very small sop indeed.: of the Tobacco Institute, Inc., ~ause the program as& whole, though it' took great pains to give both sides a fa°.r hearing, left no doubt-at least not in the mind of this pack-a-day viewer-that the cnmplkined Wednesday nieht that his participation in the program "was obtained' by }nisrepresent'ation. In a telegram'to CBS presi- • dcnt Frank Stanton„ Mr. A1- bulk of evidencd- points un- len said: mistakably toward a far "We were told that the higher mortality rate among, program would be an ob3ec- cigarette smokers than among i~~ee report on smoking and' non-smokers; not only from ealt'h. Instead, it' affords a lung cancer but from heart `.chicle for venting of ex.- isease:,. reme opinions and prejudices hnong the telline spokes- without any real effort to nien for this viewpoint were explore the facts and to de- Dr. E. Cs:yler Hammond, the ' termine the merits of these American Cancer Society's di- positions."' rector of' statistical resparch, Mr. Allen said lie had :oo~ and Dr. Michael Shur:kin„ been_t'r,ld in ad'vance that thtdirector of, field studies for "program, was to ic oa•ieatrd the National'Cancer Institute to the young, bn:itnning of the United States Public smoker-yet this is thc only ' Health Service. Even more subject on which I am • imoressive was the testimony -quoted." He said the progra¢n . of, Sir Robert Platt, who was usert only a single excerpt - president of' England's Royal from a lengthy interview and _ College of Physicians when it it was "badly out of context." Issued its famous reporG o3l _--Rieh'ard S. Salant,. presh_ : _las~fita'a--ata;ting Satly_th4; dent o1- CBS news, replied: ~he __relationshtp!`._ Utiveen-: "We've checked into Mr. A1- .. amoktni; and. Iung cancer-tfr". len'b charges and we -deny- unquestionable: The facts and . - them, The program speaks; figures put: forward; by-these ; for itself.", _ men, and several others, were ,plain _ verwh@lminc - ll'Ios~ of-`Ehe sjieakens wtlc>:, i l e :ape ~d ' w tte nppos em c a pleader~. ~c~=~Dr. Frnest A:?Jictttier, described as aicdn- sulfant' to tobacco companies ,13ere and abroad. and Dr. ' Clarence Cook Little; scien- tit7c director of' the Tobacco CITIZ~.'N-NEFfW Hollywood,, Ch.lifornia September 2p,. 1962 ' . ,.. 7V Tithe'Hit At. Smaking By ARLENE GARBER TV Editbr - Whether you give up smoking or take it up, , after view- ing the hour inquiry, "CBS Reports: The Teen-Age Smoker," aired last night, is not the concern of television. - But you can1t say that you havenit been told!all there isi to tell about the cigarette habit. ~ This report did a good'job of'bringing to the front all the questions, all the known answers and all' the answers: that have yet to be found by medica,l researehers: - From teen-agers it discovered their lack of concern about falling victim someday to lung cancer. Also re- vealed was one of the major reasons why they start smok+ ing in the first place. They want to belong, they follow the d and the crowd smokes. - ~ F s was intended, this program was enlightening. Es- pecially when one expert stated that smokin in our mod- ern age of tensions, has become a orm~ o tranquilizer. And those who are chronic smokers should consider that ey have some kind of "mild neurosis." . I Some of the facts wer fri hteni S ch a th i e g ng u s e p c- .tures of lung tissue from smokers as compared with lung', tissues from non-smokers. This was another excellent example of informing the' people, done so well last season by "CBS Reports." And from all indications the standard of' this series will be maintained throughout the coming months. A MISTAKE r"ra"-,el'b's Va*ietb C-areetl6^ l`v l'BS.TV' woill; ' TIMM Louisville, Kentucky September 20, 11962' Smoking ~ .rnn:_+ . s~ .~ ~oVW Sflf S, ' `- A ProteSt in reoutlal, Dr. Clarence. Cook Little, scientific director of the Tobacco Research Cen- - ter, maintained that it was not clearly es'tablishedlthat tobacco caused cancer in man. George V. Allen, president ol' the Tobacco Iinstitute, called the program "a one-sided, pres- - entation against tobacco." , , New York, Sept. 20 lift - "My own participation was w, - C.D'.S,-TV presentiedl both sides obtained by misrepresentation both as to purpose and content of' the smoking,health contro, of the .show;' lie said. "1Ye versy last night In an hour- were told that the programm long program, "The Teen-Age would be an objective report Smoker." lit brought a protest 0° smoking and health. from the head of the Tobacco "Instead it affords a, vehiele Institute„Inc: for venting, of extreme opin- ions and, prcj,tiu9iee•; without' Testimony was presented by any reaQ' effort to exphmc the the Royal College of I'hyai+ factr and to determine the clans In Great Britain, the merits of these pusitions. The U. S. Publ'ic' Ibealih Service, ahow fails tu, cume to grips and the American Cancer So• with, the basic point-thal the ciety concerning possible links eauses oC lung cancer are still unknown and that every efforU betwecn smokins' and' lun'g shouldi be directed towards cancer: finding these causea."' .+~: -