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PITTSHURGH POST-GAZETTE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania April '. 12, 1960 oublef Talk Sparks igaret-Cancer Trial Nttr Jeraey Doctor Brought llp Short ,., In Testimony by Tobacco Firm Counsel }sy''~C ~; ai ALBERT W BLOOM A chemical physicist. teetified in Federal Court yes- terday terday that' he found "many" carcinogenic (cancer-caus- ing) chemicalft among 114 compounds that he isoiated from cigaret smoke - But' Dr. David N. Kendall, of the Kendall Infra-Red Laboratories, PlainLeld, N. J, was forced to admit that these 'Thls guy Is no more quaII- "chemicals were never, tested fled than the man In the to prove cancercausing ability gooon-" In humans. Mr. McArdie Cited eracked back "we're going Poison Gases, "Anybody would be foolish to call hlm tomorsowP ! to do that" he said However,'Dr. Kendall, 93, (a rt in his field) Dr. Kendall was brought up recognized expe sl'tort by Defense Attorney and not the"tnan in the moon" Frederick P. Haas, counsel is due to take the stand again for Liggett & Myers Tobacco at 10 a. m~ today in Judge Company defendants in a John L miller'E stxth floor , f1,250,000 ~ lung cancer suit ecurttoom in the Federal .~' - "::..•~Building• . -. ..;~ . ~hen •-x°~. „ ..•. The bespectaeled scientist Earliero Dr. Morton L Itv- also testlfied t h a t cigaret In, 54, of the Roswelt Park Me smoke contained "poison gases morial Institute, a New York not visible to the human eye ° state research and hospital in- stitution near Buffalo, linked dgarets and cancer. He said it was "highly aug• gestive, but not conclusive"' that heavy cigaret smoking brings on lung cancer• He conreded that 1n the 1950's be wrote that the "true cause of lung cancer has yet to be determined." Dr. Levin al9o tied the kindOf lung cancer Mr. Pritchard had(epidermoid earcinoma: squamous cell type-the kind that arises in the plate-likr cells of the lung lining) to smoking. Mr. Pritchard blames his cancer on Chesterfields• '7t Is a remarkable fect." said Dr. Levin, •'that this type ot cancer, except In rsre esceptions, Is atmoet always found in easas Otheavy cig-aret smoking. •.' ^ Earlier atrecess, he replied :o reporters' questions with: ~--."Yes„ I smoke occislonslly. About eight th.ten a day,the ftltered kind." Ke daclined to aame.e them. . - Dr. Kendall was under the . direct questioning of Attorney James E• McLaughlin, asso• date of Attorney James P• ^' McArdle. Inthe case broughtt by Otto E. Pritchard• 61•year• old Brooklinee carpenter:, Mr. McLaughlin i5 known to have done intensive research on , dgarets and lung cancer to prepare the Pritchard case, Llkened' To Man In Moon . But Mr: Haas evidently holds Dr. Kendall in disdain as a witness on lung cancer and dgaret and dgaret smoking:. At the end of the fitth day of trial yesterday, Mr. H a a a .cracked across the counsel table: ; 11, I~N +tia' t t f: 1 q t +~n , V P~~$ ~~ e aus<a o° f~ ~ Pittsburgh, Peluisy 8 Substances lvsnia ezceeaingl,y complex and ob ~,, April l~y 190V ~ . . ~M" •.. f r~H 4 r~' ,*t Dr., Levin wu the nith 1; Cause Cancer, ~eXd~g~:~ ~t Chemist Says ~ggett & Myers r Mr. Prltchard a carpentar, dalms he contracted lung can• ~ eer lrom oking the f1tYa's Found In 'Tar Chesterbddsmbrand for many From, Cigarets z-eat' ; t one of his Iungs was =+s- Trial' Here Told ' ` moved because of cancer in 1e63. : .. Dt. 1`.ev1n, on questloning by Defense Counsel FYed• erick Saas, sakt the aause or eaeses ot tum~ m~cer bad to be dlscaesed in tcrma of probabWty, rather than oartalnty. . .. .r He sttted earlier yesterday that In hif oplnion "the fact that Mr. Pritchard smoked dgarets and smoked heavily was a major causative factor in his developing this parttcu- ]ar type of lung cancer.- Mr. Haas pointed out that Dr. Levin was asked at a con• " Dr. Kendall, a consulting gressional hearing last week 1 chemist who appeared briefly whether he had come to a cron '!-on the witness stand yester• clusion "with any medical cer. day, resumed his testimony tatnty" regarding a link be this morning in the suj; tween smoking and lung can- against the Liggett & Myers cer• !Zb bacco Co. by Otto Pritchard, «I told them I was eon• 6l•yearold cancer victim from vtnw6 there ts a real risk 8rookline- from amoldng" Dr Levln ,. Jurors At Loss testlned, His testimony took on the •you said Zt took me two appearance of a long lecture years to give it up myseW ' on chemlcali analysis, which Mr. Haas reminded him• seemed to sometimes bewilder . the iury of seven women and Rt oertainiy d1d." Dr. -- ifvee men. Levin . replied. •'It was a,. Even Mr. Pritchard's attor• tough thing to da" aey; James A. McArdle, ealled the complicated description Dc Levin 1a professor and '7nteltlgent but somewhaG un• head of the department of epi. Itttel.ligible." _ demiology at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute, a New Mr. MrArdfe sought to York State center devoted to bring a research machine cancer treatment and research. iaed by Dr. KendallInto the gpudia cancer Rates eourtroom for a demnstfa ~ k~ said he could 1iNc tiqn, but dudgedohn L MU. 1!r refused dgaret'smoking,to lung can. permisafon ~r with "reasonabje mediCal 'I'he witness explained how certainty" but not with "ab• he cwlllcted and analyzed cig• aolute certainty." aret smoke tars while serving He agreed with A•fr. Haea as a consultant' to P. Loril• that a causative factor (such lardCo, , . . -. • .. . as smoking) "Yeayy or may not He satd the eight chemical be operative in a given tn- eompounds referred to as "car• atance." tittogens" were identiSed as Mr. Hsas noted that Ih Dr. Levin'r atudies of ian•- eerrates among men of "lower sodo•economlo sta- tua" smoking habits do not entieelyexpiain the higher Inddence, compared w t t h ths general population 117 WEBNEB SIEMS ~ A New Jersey chemist testi. fed In Federal Court today he isolated eight chemical edmpounds ]n dgaret smoke + tars which are identlfled by the Government as "carcino- ;^'' These are agents which have •-.. Deen found to cause cancer in animals when given in various amounts, said Dr. David N, Kendall of Plaihfleld, N. J He admitted, however, be ' bad conducted no nneer tests on animals hiimelf, ludt In publications of the U. S. Department of Health,. Education and Welfare. He admitted that'the animal tests didn't take Into account whether the amount of "car• dnogens" absorbed by a hu• man smoker'in puffs of cig• aret smoke would be enough "On the basis of y o u r to cause cancer. studies can you predict what ho One Cause will happen to a given indi- Yesterday, a Buffalo, N. Y.,, vidual?" asked Mr. Haas• eancer researcher agreed there "It is practically imposslble ls no single causative factor to predict what will happen for cancer of the lung. to aa Individual unless you Dr, Morton L Levin; a wit• put a gun to his head," Dr. ;,;ttess for the olaintlff, acknowL Levin answered.