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rnokin~--Cance Issue ebated by Sc~entists The controversial' question of' whether cigarette smolflng causes lune cancer was debated by two leading scientists at the annt:al meeting of the llionroe County. Cancer Assn• yesterday. ilii h Dr Michael B.- Shimkn, tonoL cgarettee smoking,e .. - ehiefof the biometry (healthlsaidh thetobacco~ industry and statistics) branch of the Na-~ its advertising hucksters refuse tionai Cancer Inatitute, safd: 'to accept'~ the facts . that cigar. °It's no longer anopinion tliat lung cancers are caused by ettes can induce lung cancer cigarette smoking. It's a fact.,': in some people. The industry. Clarence Cook Little, D.Se:,'hesaidineeds self-discipline. acientific director of the To. ur. Littie, who founded the baccc Industry Research Com• Jackson Lab^ratory at Bar Har mittee„said: ibor, lfe., said, there areincor.- The continued'selection and: sistencies between the actual ,Nihd th i presentation l of onlyy tee ev-researc findings aneendertcethat supports the tobacco-, terpret:tion of the statistical guilt theory, is neitherscien-resulE. He charged that somee tific nor honest:.Letthepublic. seientistsmays be too enah- havel all the factsin an im-iastie in their interpretations1 b:~ensono^i' and unemotional pre lied before arecoresearch nclusi ntcao be At the luncheon meeting atdrawn. . the Chamber o6 Commerce, Dr. Shimkin said'that 18.OOU of the 26,000 annual deaths from lung cancer in this country could be prevented! byy the elimination of cigarettesmoking.-While op-posed to an outrighti prohibi ROCfESTRR DEMOCRAT AND CHRONSCLE Rochester, New York Apri1 29, 1900' ThE 3AfiG-OR DAILY liP:'+r'S No' Jilrv Can s;ne°o; ;q6oe Settle Cancer,, fear by publishing articles not caneer was d mtly linked with based on fact. He said that filter smakfng: cigarettes were not produced in Need For Something New ~' . 5t1 years• "and I ean only take I quantity by the iadustty because One sugg tton that Dr. Littla lightly the simple thpory of jts lof the claim that filtered smoke , offered was the "need for giving omgin•" , '_:? «. ,`reduees the chances of getti...g;,the publi'a something new and ex- The doctor said that tfie, eancer, but because the public de ktting:" ~ :, :_ tobacco induslty has spent in the'` manded filters after reading that I The doctor said that the statis.~ past five years t.7.a00;t100 in re-Inon,filter , cigarette smoking ticians of Great Britain and the search grants: not to clear the in-Icauses eancer. , United States are imeomplete dir dustry of the charges made The doctor said the industry agreement although they use the against it but to find out if will produce square. pink or nny same data. - : "tobacco is guilty of the charges." The British say that inhalatian sh'aped cigarette if the public uilllmakes fio difference xhil6 in Am. Dr. Little said that the in• buy them-il's a highly competi-lerica they say it'is important!^ dustry will be the first to report if fpve market: ~ The doctor toncluded' his talk tobaceois linkedladth canter . DLittle stated that'he couldby saying that"'a highl r.,.y inteW ' 4; 8T ED MATHESON hew Bangor Merchants Bureau ~ 2: br Clarence Cook Little told a prestdent Bangor Chamber of Commerce Dr Ilttle said thab he har ~,,annual gathering Wednesday eve- studled the disease of cancer for ~ n6ng that "statistical' information Is not substantial proof" that NFY;, t,,.sntoking is a direct or contribut- ,,ing cause ot cancer or oth er ~•c ehronic or constitutional'diseases. ^Dn Little, who is associated 7 3' aath the Tobacco Industry Re- aearch Committee, founded the Rnseoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor and is r'aigfth' former managn director oe American Cancer Society. -6tudi''ed Gneer.70 Years "The 47th annual session also Blames "Lay Jouraals" }only guess at the motives of ttie!gent pubfic is a prerequisite to elected GeorgC Yose new Chamberl 7he speaker blamed the "lay I American Cancer Society when it conquering these diseases which « president and .licbaet Seluke as journals" MiEh spreading cancerI announced five years ago that~have a s1Aw silent and very auti , l1e beginrw 2. rl'HE BANGOR DAILY NEW4 Other Chamber olficers are J. ,AF( Dudlly lJner6ack, Ban vice prestdenr 8ora Maine CeorgePrinoe, treasurer and . .. ._ 4 •-June 9, 1960 Norbert X: Dowd, exeNLte sec- X; , , retary. On the Board of Directors are s George Vosz, Andrew J. Pease. J. Dudley Ctterback:, Stanley. Leen, Albert Schiro. James S. Stanley. Dr. Frederick H', KTit• taker, J. Gordon Robertson, Alan Waterman, David Buchanan:.R'al- ter Dickson... E. Richard IJrum- mond, Donald Eames• C. J. Fox,. Ambrose Hi_guos, Chardes Mcln- imch, Joh'n JkPtke„John Jfainea,. William Richardson. James SegalJ Michael Seluke, Frank Smart. Caldwell Sweet, William Vlner andwillis.l'teeks: Other Ba~gor Merchants Bu• reau otticers are Sidney Schiro„ vice presidlnt: Irving Broder,, treasurer; andIiorbert X. Dowd,. . secretary. On the Merchants Governing Board are James Allison, Edward' w Beausang; Charles Brountas, Weh '. don ~ t)iinnett• John Freese, Me]' Go!dstein, Scott Hathau^ay: Rus- sell Lathrop•Do:nald hfac\augh, lon, HenryPaul•Samuel Rud-'manj and James Segal. Smoking Link The link between smoking and rancer-if theree is one-will ne, er-be sett7ed byaNry of 12men ia court, Dr. Clarence Cook I.:r:1e• said kere Wednesday. A recent' ciril' action against the Tobacco Industry charging it a ith selling products which caused ~ cancer wasdecideds tnfaror of the industry. 'The subject' et cancer Is too ~ technical for any 12 laymen,"fhe.doctor said._.