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,`(Editor's Note: Many stories appeared each day in California-area newspapers on ;:;:.the proceedings of the symposium, "Man and His Environment--The Air We Breathe." A few of these stories, wire service stories and the TINME magazine article are ~...summarized here.) . In its' opening paragraph, TIME says: 'A.fter years of bombarding each other with flat denials and un- Papers reported are those of Dr. David F. Eastcott, a New Zealand general . practitioner, and Dr. Paul Kotin, of the University of Southern California. .lead to cancer while Dr. Kotin thought smoking sets the stage for the air air pollution sets the stage for smoking to damage the lungs and perhaps in their theories of sequence," TIME adds, "Dr. Eastcott thought British for multiple causation...." of lung cancer. "The researchers still differed TIME's observation is that Dr. Kotin, like Dr. Eastcott, "...also plumped pollution villain...." "As for the difference in lung-cancer death rates between men and women About other matters discussed by conference participants, TIME says of one: in their cigaa:ette consumption), the American Cancer Society's Dr. E. Cuyler Aammon(7 suggested that men are more exposed to industrial fumes and dusts. (which~the tobacco industry maintains is far greater than the difference NEWSPAPERS real findings in two surveys linkingsmoking and lung cancer were mis- represented by propagandists; the cancer angle was played up, he said, while other findings indicating that smoking was a much greater factor in heart-disease deaths and a minor factor in several other diseases were San Francisco (AP) -- Views expressed at a news conference by Drs. Joseph Berkson and E. Cuyler F=unond are reported. Dr. Berkson charged that the 2. "Emphasis Disputed in Cancer Findings." THE NEW YORK TIMES. January 19, 1960. virtually ignored. "Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, co-author of one of the surveys, agreed that his findings had shown that increasing cancer deaths among smokers were 'a relatively minor part of the total impact of smoking on over-all death rates'...."' ~lattering recriminations, the two sides in the smoking-and- ~.last,week. Previously, evidence has usually been offered at ,lung-cancer controversy came close to sense-making agreement one-sided meetinas -- either by those who indict heavv ciaarette .smoking as the principal cause or by those who put the blame for lung cancer's explosive increase on general atmospheric pollution. auspices of the University of California; the Tobacco Industry La.st week authorities from both schools met in San Francisco under Research Committee put up $28,000 toward expenses.

.: .: Nos. 1-5 , Janua.ry 19, 1960 '••~ ...:, ,:~ ~•;t :. _ ,. , ,. . . s "Lung Cancer Figures False, UC Meet Told." SAN FRAhTCISCO (CALIF.) EXAMINER. January 19, 1960. of Dr. Joseph~Berkson's comments during "a press conference debate with I Mayo Clinic physician charged," EXAMINER'Science Editor John F. Allen writes out of a 'reprehensible and socially irresponsible propaganda campaign,' a The popular idea that cigaret smoking is a major cause of lung cancer arose ,:Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, the American Cancer Society's statistical director ' and author of the major study linking smoking and lung cancer...." the deaths due to smoking." been misused to give the impression that lung cancer accounts for most of .,Allen adds "On one point the two men were agreed: that the statistics had validity at all, they show that the major effect of heavy cigaret smoking is a sharp increase in deaths from heart attacks. "But, he said, because Cancer Society are probably "completely spurious," and, if they have any He quotes Dr. Berkson as saying that statistics gathered by the American deliberately and wrongly used -- with 'Madison~Ave.techniques' -- to play the statistics were gathered with lung cancer in mind, they have been up that facet and ignore others...." "Doctor Hammond," Allen adds, "maintained first that his statistics are valid, deaths far outnumbered lung cancer deaths among smokers. He attempted to and second that he always had been careful to point out that heart attack his statistics was played'up by news media...... "Polluted Air Called Lung Cancer Cause." NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGBAM AND SUN. January 16, 1960. report. San Francisco (AP) -- "A massive 10-year study of people in New Zealand has °yielded plain evidence that polluted air is a cause of lung cancer," this wire service article says in giving many details of Dr. David F. Eastcott's "Air Pollution 'a Major Cause' -- Study of Imrnibrants Gives Lung Cancer Clue." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. January 16, 19 . Reporter David Perlman writes of Dr. Eastcott's paper, "A searching new study of population and disease offers 'ample evidence' that air pollution is a major cause of lung cancer...." Page 2-- TOBACCO NEWS SUMMARY