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gations will nott uncover something 1 +~~' ~ t lik ld l i oyers wou no e . r emp the S ti,.":,l>But what about the independent.: researchers? Are they gathering evi-'F' .4nhafin~hs+fnr4n nn n,e- danra tn,aunnnrt their oninions-,..isk1 ~ being fair~to the American people agets pipes and cigars usually come }` The whole matter is suspect be ln their pronouncements about cig- `'out with a clean bill of health, But .cause age-old puritanical objections`.` *aret smoking. h tp smoking sttll inflltence people's Is s arm- o v~ Two weeks ago, Dr. Leroy E. Bur- sure y, ctgare i smo e thtnking. From the:fust tntroductton ral of th U S ful, the heavier types of tobacco of tobacco into Europe there were'~ ne e ,~, ney, surgeon ge Public Heaith Service, came out wlth smoke should be equally harmful. . .those who clatmed tt dId all sorts 01 ~ `another one of those horrendous `: Perhaps a statistical study should frightful things to people. And, on,{, there have always ~ tements linking cigarets with ''be made of the attitudes and person- the other hand f ~ t , ; a a . who praised smoke atterns of the researcherss been those ex=~ s 3 alit + ~t « y p ~ r ung caneer, Z1i omes the American ~4ledical Those who Work fortlie tobacco com- travagantly " - N . j ow c ames are unmediately suspects More intellectual honesty ln this l with a ditorial ti i J k~~ a p ourna n e a on Assoc ~ r ,~>t stating that there is insufficient evt they at least hope that their tnvestt matter would be appropnate ti t th t ' o warran e assump on dence ' "'`'~r' ' that cigarets are a major factor in BEACON :4r ~1~. ~ M ~,^µthe increase. Wichita, Kansas ' l is i th AMA J l ourna as e n y ~ K Certa ~ ~`; authoritative as the Public Health ~cember 12, 1959 O t ,.}, ` Service. Why can't the doctors get D together and decide just what they ~ l t -` Alth ~'~~ a~ h J ourna o say e o T goes an N_ the studies reveal a relati onship be + ~ , , t~'S..tween cigaret smoking and cancer `'' r e t %~ Q Break For To~ -_T-..460+ c mc n, 0 1h~n nn_,nniAentyl ... ~, ..~. ,v{ I~, ._ r `~':they do not explain why, even when 45 <.~ :->. smoking patterns are the same, the ` s s : ease rates are higher among men A . i, than among women and among ur :_ 40.4 -,4 a ban than among rural populations 4';` An accepted organ of the medical world has at last ' ' g and it ~, .. spoken up on the broad question of smokins 7__-- relation to human health. The Journal of the American ' :: Medical Association has come to the rescue o a e- . deviled industry fighting a number of attacks made on t %s ' ,> : l`r•the custom. The recent, statements of Dr. LeRoy E.` Burney; surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, are challenged by the medical journal." I NE lS & 03S°iirER : ' Many have come forward already to say that it is pre- Raleigh, North Carolina - sumptuous to indict smoking as the principal' cause of December 11+, 1959 lung cancer when there is insufficient proof to support I t:°~t ! that claim ., .,-:--AMA Neutral On Lung Cancer ~' Throug4t its publication,~The + as many cigarettes. The Jour- , . American Medical nat does conclude, however, ; but the country is bemg nat th mcreasin - J t adtl tt f i g our e e y glre es s o c ,, Association has now taken a that pertinent stati'stics hre- madconscious of otherr factors in thee cancer sltuation..'. neutral position in the contro- veal a connection between cig- '". Only this week the issue of dangerous additives V~ .:' versy as to whether or not cig- erette-smoking and cancer that was broached once more with the assertion that certain ~ ° arette-smoking has been proven seems more than coincidentalL" . chemicals used to fatten hens artificially promotes the v be the main factor in the re- After considering all the evi- development of malignancy. In the same breath there': cent increase in reported cases denee, The Journal makes this has been a suspicion brought forward before a Senate , of lung cancer. ._•".r- wise summary: "Neither the investigating committee that some of the new medicines ~ The Journal has now proper- proponents nor the opponents of have elements in them which produce an adverseseac- tV~ ` t >a ,,,r~,oa fi;a .,.iPw_ ~_~ of Dr. the smoking theory have suf- tiom to the patient. There is also the rising fear that Lero E Burney chief ofthe " ficient evidence to.warranttheo the pollution oI Ine air oymonoxtae rumes anu. uLnen y 1.., U S P b11c Service which ap- assumption of an all-or-none emanations from internaU combustion engines, are set- u . ~ peared in its own coihmns last authoritative position."' ting up irritations in the human respiratory system mona,. Dr. Burney made the Both the U. S. Public Health which gradually develbp into malignant growths. O flat statement that smoking is service and private physicians People are even beginning to: wonder if the Pure D the "main factor" in the in- would do well to fo:low the ad- Food and' Drug Act is being applied to the maximum ~ crease although conceding that vice of the ANfA to await "de- benefit of the public since it has been said that the rate there are "unanswered ques- finitive studies" before taking of development in additives„preservatives and colorants tions" which he brushed aside. a dogmatic position for or applied to food is faster than~ the staff of chemists can ~. These questions rise from the against the smoking theory as make theirr determiningexperiments; fact that the evidence shows related to cancer. So many new factors have sprung up in relation to ® that more cases.fiave been re- Certainly, opinions on the cancer singled and out its for this cause that indictment. tobacco B caut'nnot the ps anv y longer be chological ported' among men than womr subject should not be pro- damage dbne is considerable in terms of the tobacco in- en where both groups, had the claimed as proven facts. Those dustry. If some medical group were to give an opinion same smoking: habits; and that who prefer facts to opinions that'the colorant that' is added to oranges is delrimental men smokers who live in cities should emulate the AMA by re- to health there would be a loud cry from the orange have had more lung cancer than serving judgment until actual groves just as the cranberry bogs up north have been rural residents who smoke just proof is avallable. heard from over the poison scare. .. It'ls by no means certain that thts defense of the , industry will silence those who continually are sniping ' • at tobacco and repeating the old'threadbare charges. , It is doubtful if the public is eonvinced! that whatj for not only is the consumption' Burney said:is true Dr 3~