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f 403.~•~ 3~-5 50 to " 69 and presumab healthy, beginning in 1954. x ~ ;` .'``But 44 months l'ater, 7,316 ' ~'i 'ded among those who smoked ause (not only cigarets) regularly. ~ ws ~,~ :~ 1 Higher biortality Rate , f Cancer ~s ~A~rlTlus, said Dr. Cameron ls ~~,+y2,665 more than would have _sX~~~ i that ~ Scientist Saysk 4~~merate of deaths as those . : ;~ ~who never smoked Death Rate Higher ~.;There were 4,406 deatns r` ,Y among smokers of cigarets For Smak ers .: only. B ALBERT VV BLOODi f Lung cancer claimed 448; of ~". '~ ~j y . Poat•Gazette StaE wrHV ,these, 319 had a "history of s ..aa ~ ~ "' .. . .. .. . _ -former scientific dI- regular cigaret smoking. Ye- C.ross examined by Defense ~,'~~ ~ kreetor of the American Can- "Attorney Frederick P. Haas, cer Soeiety yesterday told a member of the tobacco : ~'~?`' ~Ws +r w firm's legai battery, Dr. Cam- jury ~~'~wr{~ s Federal court here , eron was forced to admit that ...~~,.~. _:; that national study showed up until 1960 the American <y11ffig cancer death rates for Cancer Society did not assert tly that there was a° cigaret ' smokers were 64 flacause - and effect" relationship be- hi her than for nontimes . ~ tween cigaret smoking and ,;, smokers. cancer. Also, that Dr: . Dr. Charles S Cameron, now Cameron in recent years had ',!dean of Hahnemann Medical, asserted that cigaret smoking College, Philadelphia, also de was but one of possible causes. r; clared that the lung cancer of this admission will af- Otto E. Pritchard, 61•year old fect tlle strategy of the to- ' Brookline carpenter who is bacco firm's attorneys Is not suing Liggett & Myers To• yet clear. However, Dir. Mc- tr . bacco Company for $1,250,000, Ardle has attacked Llggett & was linked to =i bi cigarets. Myers advertisng aseng -Picka Words Carefully _."deceitful" In not' pointing out harmful efiects of smok- "In my opinion, it is proba- ble that cigaret smoking ing' caused it," Dr. Cameron testi- ' It may be that defense at- torneys later mean to under- f'~; fied, picking his words care, score the fact that, while Mr. _ Pritchard's lung cancer was. _~ _ Mr- Pritchard, through At• found in 1953, it was not until torney James P. McArdle, 1960 that the Amercian Can- ;; ~-rclaims that some 25 years of cer Society itself felt confident s'. S ~,4 h e a v y- smoking, m o s t 1 y enough to blame lung cancer A ~7 4 s GhesterfteMs, c a u s e d epi- directly on cigaret smoking ~- n~~ +;. dermoid carcinoma (cancer), ~'Do you believe that canc~r ~ squamous cell type" . ,;,:can be caused by smoking?" ~ Hiih l w 1I Hs asked Dr s rgtungas re•r•aa. Cameron, moved late in 1953 by a Pit'ts• a h a n d s o m e, gray-]1aired, =4:.burgh chest surgeon -: ~.-. . young-looking man with a ~'s = '(Squamous cell, epidermoid ruddy face. " I think that you can st ate carcinorna usually refers to that kind o4 cancer which this within the degrees of arises on the surface lining of Proba6ility," a n sw er e d Dr. the lung arpong the plate-like Cameron. Haas persisted: " ?. rells ) . Mr.On the grounds of medical certainty Dr. Cameron himself still in particular cases?" smokes, he told reporters- "No °' said Dr. Cameron after testifying. quietly. "Ciganets?" he was asked. U. S. District Court Judge '`"Yes, cigarets," he replied. John L. Miller adjourned the But Dr. Cameron amiably de- trial, now in its fourth day, dined to say what brand, until Monday at 10 a.m. , At that time, Dr. Morton Le- vine of Rosewell Park Mem• orial Institute, near Buff alo, and Dr. David Kendall, of Ken- ' dall Laboratories, N. J., are due to testify in Mr. Prit- chard'a behalf On the witness stand, he 1told a jury of seven women and five men which Is known to contain smokers non- amokers, and those who quit amokmg that the Cancer So• clety atudied 187 783 men a e , , g . es uwar ^:'YJ ts :~w i ' 'v ~qy~lt:4 ~ uancer ``"~Another caneer expert today ~` r ' ;:,testified thaG there is`a rela tionship between cigaret smok ., Ing and lung cancer. ,°PjnW -' He is Dr• Morton L• Levin, head of the Epidemiology De- partment of Rosswell Park Memonial Institute of Buffalo '~ , the New York State cancer ~ r research hospitaL l+r5l ~ The purpose of his depart• . L tC~ih '`~ment, he explained, is to de• :~;:~; •:termine factors causing the ,y disease by comparing records :; of those suffering from it and :',those who don't. .' ''Dr. Levin was called by At• `. >•torney J. P. McArdle, repre- senting Otto Pritchard, 61, Brookline cabinet maker, who `.°'is suing Liggett & Myers To• `'bacco Co for $1250 000 ~• ' t~ . , -', PRITCHARD SAYS he got' ; lung cancer from smoking the-',', ~~. 4,0 ~• :firm's Chesterfield cigarets for ~ about 25 years. Of Pritchard's type of lung ; cancer, Dr. Levin said: ~~AY "I have -not made a partic ~ h ular study of it' but I have `="' . ~t .not seen one case in a person who was nqt a smoker. :'There is a definite rela- ~tionship between~ lung cancer ` and cigaret smoking as dif- s°^Yt r; ;ferentiated from pipe and ci-;; gar smokers. ;"THIS EVIDENCE can "only •~be interpret'ed to mean that'°+ ; smokmg ctgarets materially : `fncreases -chances of acquiring'~ lung cancer. ,+1, "I conclude that, if every-' 4 one who smokes would quit, the lung cancer mortality rate would be reduced by 30 per ¢ent." ~ The disease Is most preva ` x M lent In persons over 65, he said,, and the ratio between male and female sufferers is z five to one, male. He explained the difference by saying men smokers start ' y t+yr earlier in life than women ~ PRITCHAIRD u n d e r w e n t eR•, ~ r surgery in Pittsburgh for re-' f l moval of a part of his right -~, ~'%4•lun in 1953 H ed th ' e accus e company :- `' of -"deceitful advertising" which lulled smokers after smoking was "proved'danger-:`;` . .-...,u.. _.• 1~ ..,t