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.]. ~ ~:1y t y -• Sz.4 4!•.i'`''i.-r~' 'NE1^I ORIZANS TIMSyS-PICAY[JftE n s x • , ~~New Orleans' Louisiana ' ' ~ y ~ . - I--_ . . . ..,;I.. . . .. „~, . ~, , - , . . . . ., . •... ~t>r - .'3~.. ..,I w..e. u, smoacrs ana nv~rsmoa• w wuvmaces ne woum.consiaen easily cured' most persons Sfe , ers and he first suspected a link these two other possibilities for " cured. I malntafn the lncidenes CANCER OF LUN i~' f~ SMOKING LINKED ivo Experts Testify in exas Widow's Suit exoerts testified' Friday in federal court that: they be• {-lleve that there Is a relationship -~ "':-between cigarette smoking and ~-a;.' Oancer of the lung. 11tey were called to the stand dou'titg the fifth day of the trial il~ Li' which a Houston, Tex., wid- ow is suing two' clgarette cam- patdes. She claims that her hus- ; band's death in 1955 from lung Cancer was caused by his smok- B efore the two new witnesses -'1,'^Irere called to the stand by the : plaintitf's attorneys, d e f e n s e 'bounsel completed cross exami• ,-r_']tation of Dr. Alton Ochsnen Dr. ~ Oahsner had testified all~ day :.lttursday and told the court that he has concluded that there is '- ~ a definite causal relationship be- tween smoking and ltimg cancer. •'Dr. Richard H. OverholQ head ,; of the Overholt Thoracic Clinic :,Ia Boston, Mass., testified on di- '. ` t'ect examinatimn~ Fridayy thatt he _ Is afraid that' lung cancer will ih smoking and cancar in 1939 the cause of his cancer. 1# lecripasing,^- when he noticed "something The doctor told Kiendl that The •witness claimed that sfa~ ' happening"'to the linings of the most doctors who disagree with tistics produced by the defense air tubes of smokers: It was at his opinion are smokers. attorney were based on mprtal• $ta6time that he gave up smok. He referred to "strong ctr- {ty and had nothing to do with tng himself, he esserted. cumstantial evidence that 1n• , the incidence of larynx cancer,' The witness told the court criminates the person whb Is I Klendl showed the doctor Char. that he cannot explain why all guilty-the smoker," but later, I ity hospital statistics from 1937 smokers do not get cancer of when questioned by the defense to 1944 whichwere not based on the lun "b t th t " g u ey may get a torney about the word 6ir ,, It- mortalities. If they live long enough."' • cumstantia{,"' he said "To me "There ts probably an _ expla• He said that he feels that'this the evidence {s so overwhelm- nation for th'6i," Dr. Ochsner ean possibly be explained by Ingly positive I, do not want to asserted. "Pre-cancerous condf' tke fact that,only small percent- use the word." ages ofpersons tions in the larynx can be easily exposed to'oth- PRODUCING CANCER '^ '''' """'n'°'t-eu ••'"t er diseases such as tuberculosts diagnosis and the stapping ot and% infantila paralysis ever get IN bIICE DESCRIBED those diseases. "We can't'say , the smoking." at why some get' It and others Dr. Moore described the Rw• Questioned on the incidence donSt," he added. well Park Memorial Institute as lung cancer in males and fe• Smokers do not get skin can- tthe second largest cancer cen• males, the witness said that at cer from the contact of the to- 1thr in the world devoted to re- tirst, he thought~there was some baeco with their fingers he search and treatment sexual pred sposition In malea cause of the difference in the, I He described research in and ttiade-many such , statoa type of tissue structure in thel' which cancer, is produced 1n ments but later changed his skin and in the lining of thel mice "pretty much at'will".and , opinion as research advaneed-,. Iungs with the same compounds that: I have seen some persons de• '-proditcecancer in humans. velop cancerr ot: thelungafter FEARS POPULATION The doctor also describe& six years of smoking, some aft- MAY BE DECI1ViATED methods used to extraet the nic-; er many years. Generally •.. Dr. Overholt, testified that It otine and'~ tar from cigarettes pack a day for 20 or 25 years takes long periods of chronic through the use of smokingll In the male is the time needed irritation to cause the tissue I~'lhes. He said that a num-1111` to produce a malignancy, ha . cellsto "go berserk,, multiply erofaaneerproducing com•. asserted. and cause troutile:"' pounds have been found' in the, klGtiER INCIDEXCE iN *f.0., Headded, "If you~.people had ~randr others aree still beingi Dr.w•Och'sner denied beingb{•, seen as mypeoplesuffocating found,-- aaed h'en he.was accused'~oDik Beforee thee tar, Isapplied to by Kiendl. "I am not biased. I with lung cancer as I have, you .,,_ , he -a „•.,,,.. w. - - eA-e,+e nr h.auh-" ~deelmatethe population. 1 v"ouia unaerstanawhy I amI - " aeparated from the nicotine b'e• 'I am Cvorried abomf he said; . , =: He also told~the jury that cig- here. I am atraid it is going that are happening tb e is o toxle jh thm th i ti ' : gs cause e n co n s e , arette smokers stand a 977 per to deeimate our population." , in itself that the mice would be thee people. I have to take care cent chance of getting lung can.Asked byBrumfield tt th erell ~{ ld - f d b '~ e cancer cou e e - p~ are th O -eer..And he'said that idihel ~anY, mystery to cancer, the ' be produced: On the subj - -: wt,t„t;ir. h,,.~han,t 1'h,.t Neen. witness rephiedc "T:hern le„I . . ec of . air pollu= -tortunate.enougH.never to have mystery.to life and a mystery ~na.Nr.u-rnaonar.,.r.uP W ,-- sn n -.°~. amoked hee would nor ha . ehad to what'changes a normal cell ~-~er. witnesses during the ~at hechas rmncl ded that~ll - titi d h t h " ' th ave e owever, es a cancer cell, but there is-, the cancer from which he dted fhnfS n:rnfins h- nn r.isttnn.- plays no role. He said that-he ; ot the Roswell Park Memorial' sMp between smoking and caa- ship to, cancer of the lung.. and New~ Oaleans burgh, Pa ., Institute inBuffaio, N. Y.,.saidt cen Dr.. Moore said that, of'. 8000 . has d th t Ne 'O l f ' a w r eans oun and -'Rf~ It beyond reasonabledoubt- "I am~ of the opitrion that if, persons ihvolved in a study of~ n h i id fl h hi e ce o ung er nc g that lnng, heavy, smoking, wilh a person smokes over a 1ong; the problem, there was a high, a muc cancen ' -- result in cancer of the lung.°I period of time there is a greatl hcidence of lung cancer among ` likelihood that he will get can- smokers. "Do you know that the dawtt 2048 LU.7G CANCER cr•^• / During the conclusion of his town area of Pittsburgh, a high- CASES OBSERVED i, _DOCroR? CROSS-EXA.\tTNED I cross examination; Dr. O^hs- 1Y, industrialized area, has an' excessit^ely h t g Ft Ineideace7" i b He sa een ncr said that he has Dr. Overholt under qpestion- d that he had read thee , fngb,y H. A1va.Brurnfield, one history of' '9e plaintiff's hus-."friPhtened" about the Increase Kiandl asked. ' . ears Not as high as NewOdeens, band and h anc e man di In t th lw yy a ngc r or of the plaintilt's attoneys said terviewed th ,,e, ,. that he first became interested' i plaintiff about hlss smoking Asked by Kiendiif there, the doctor replied. '. en b e . habits and from thathe formed ~uld pot tlec a.parallel betweenThe cigarette suas , . In lung cancer ia the late 1920s . .. . when, hee w~as a student of the the opinimn that his cancer was the 'lncSdeneeoC cancer of thq'q brought by Iifrs. Victoria St. formerly a resl- ti e t gu , ar Inventor of the bronchoscope: caused by smoking, larynx and'•lung cancer It IunQ Pierre He said that'he was the first On croas examination by cancer vras due to smoking;. dent of Franklin, against the person to remove a lung in a Theodore Kiendl, a defense ac. Dr. Ochsner said that he be- R+ JI Reynolds Tobacco Com• l pany end-the Liggett and Myers h is h li ll crc suc eves t a para e d 1933 operation. torney, Dr. Overholt admitte ® =from'his'clinicall ex r~ence> Tobacco Company for the: death ..Hetestified that hehaa seenn th'st if hee ruled out all oef the. ~ pf her h'usb'andi Frank. J. l:.an er supervised 2}18 lung cancer other facts in t fi e deceased iRESEARCII ADVANCE llgue• cases and ot 60 or 70 per cent man's history except the two The tr(al wili be resWmed at aD these thaEhavebeenoper®ted factors of smoking andd cancer CHANGES OPINIONI 10 a.rn,: Monday h'efore Judge on he has performed 47 per cent he would still come to the same Kleridl sought to show tha. of the sur HerFicrt' W:Chrostentierry. gery. I concluslon:certain sfati9tics donot bear- Dr. Overholt said thatt there He testified that tf thee de- outt this opinion and,.Dr..Ochsner is a marked difference in the ceased had worked with radio- said "I'll te_Il''.you why. They are - appearance in thee bronchial active materlals or was exposed .