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A,n American Cancer Society resolution calling for the appointment of a presidential commission to investigate tobacco and health received limited'press attention. NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE New york, New york October ,2g,,__ 1960 ~ ` Cancer Society 3~ , Favors`Tobacco :` : . CommissionIdea A Presidential commission on problems relating to tobacco was. ~ approved in priaciple yesterday at the closing session of the American Cancer Society's an= ' nual meeting. The board of di- rectors approved a resolution endorsmg the formation of a t~ tobacco-problems group to start "a the movement for a commission. Under the proposal, the so- ¢ ciety will invite participation by Y~ the Americam Public Halth As- ~socia'tion, the American Heart Association, the National Tu- ~ bereulosis Association and the National Health Council. ~ The board elected Dr. John r ~ W. Cline, of San Francisco, a former president of the Amer- ican Medical Association, as president of the society. He succeeds a Chicago surgeon, Dr. Warren H. Colt. iv, CHICAGO'S ANERICAP4 Chicago, Illinois October 29, 1950 s. ., ,. . _ . . . , _ Cancer Unit Asks To6acco Study ~ ` NEW YORK UP1-The Amer- r c ican Cancer society spoke out ;, today for a Presidential com- mission on tobacco problems. The groups board of`diree M. tors approved formation of a 1 - tobacco problems group to inaugurate the movement. April 1, 1961. was set as the target date for asking the " ' President to set up a com mission. t The New York Daily News editorialized on the ACS "scare" campaign in schools. October 27', 1960 New York, New York DAILY NEWS t MORE LUNG CANCER HOOEY to teach teen-agers that they'll most likely get lung cancer The American Cancer Society plans a nationwide effort ,.._., ~rr! { ~jfj.1M ~l r i if they smoke cigarets. Actually, there is no laboratory proof that cigarets Damon Runyon cancer fund always has done. Maybe the cigaret manufacturers ought-to finance the American Cancer Society's teen-age terror campaign as good advertising for cigarets. In that case, the society could stop spending so much of its contributors' money on proliaganda, and give all the dough after overhead to bona fide research projects on cause and cure of cancer, as the cause lung cancer. Actually, too, the great majority of heavy cigaret smokers do not contract the disease. The lung cancer scare, steamed up Mainly by anti- t o b a c c o fanatics, has Try to Scare Them, gone on for some six or And They Smoke More eight years. Yet U. S. cigaret sales in 1960 are heading for a record total, for the fourth year in a row.