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FRO:d: The Tobacco Institute, 1776 Y. St., N. 1P. , 1•.'ash:ington, ll. C. 2000G. r Contact: William 1:locpfer, Jr. 21'2-CA G-7160 202-29G-8434 FOR - IMMEDIATE USL•' THUI;SDAY,, APRIL 30, 1970 Cancer Society is withholding significant dataifrom scientific scrutiny in connection with an exYerimcnt vhich the Society claimed resulted in production of lung cancer in dogs with. cigarette smoke. •' NE<4 YORIC--The Tobacco Institute declar.c•d today that the Americz,n Pointing out that the American Cancer Society said the tobacco industry should reassess its policies on the strength of this experiment, the Institute disclosed: it 'iad called upon the Cancer Society to perrit an impartial scicntilic review of the underl}ing data. _ : .. conference Joseph F'. Cull.man 3rd, chairman of the Institute's committee and chairman of the board of Philip rtorris Inc., that the ACS has turned down two 'requests from the Institute C 1 . I L L -"to release the pertinent erperiment+al data to a panel of expert scientists. the d'ogs, including two of eight which did not "smo)te," had c:e've3opad lung tumors. -: Hotel neas conference last February, ACS announced that al number of The experiment involved nearly 100 beagle dogs,r most of them forced! to inhale cigarette smoke through surgical throat openings, at the Veterans Adhinistration hospital at East Orange, N. J. It was financed by Cancer Society and federal funds. At a[•+aldorf-Astoria Mr. Cullman said the Institute told AC£ it was prepared to .establish an impartial scientific revicw panel and to bear any costs . of their investigation. Tiie Society could reject any member of the , panel for good cause, he noted. He pointed out that the Society, supported by public donati.ons, has an obligation "to its contributors and to t)e public at large to provide complete information about the research which it finances." Iie added: '.If the Cancer Society does not accede to my recruest, ,•ae plan to use every m2ans at our disposal to sec to it that the medical and lay public are made a:rare of our re_:p`ctive positions in this matter. Furth•eirmorc, we i.ntend to continue to pr(-_ss our renuest for exposure of this e;:pc:rin;^nt to impartial scienti.r -;.c: scru:.iny by qualified experts in the manner :,ury~estc:3. If n),e~ Cancer Society continues to cirny accers to thc wtsr):, ])yeli.cve this scive as convincing eviennce to the public, lDy and scicnrt'.:ifi:c, that tLe... data x;*ill not E.apport t) c alil-~r,r(r.ions 1na~dc at i:)ic Society'.~ S•:aldorf--I.stori< conic)*o_ncc. " \