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r-- SOCI~TY NEVIS SERVICE 219 EAST 42nd STREET tiEW YORK• N. Y. 10017 (212) 567-370D This statement -vas issueo' -lly the'.three top offiters of the Fsnerican ;.Cancer Society: S:=T-ool of *Sedicine and }>resideL:_.os.the ~uerican Cancer Society,; Dr. Jonathan E.-P.hoads, Di.>ectc:r-of SurEery, University of Pennsylvania - _ , _ . . . `~ f . . . . . . {Iilliam B. Lewis, Chair. w:•of the Board of the. t1.^nerican Cancer Society; Dr. 13. 1•farvin Pollard, Pro`essor r of Intarnal 1ledici.ne at the L`nivcrsity of Hichigan School of ;'ed'icine;...^resident-Elect of the A>Lerican Cancer Society - and currently Chairman of the ;:edical and Scientific Co:=ittee of 'fhr r~,iec! 9.ve of the rLtae.=_- u Cezczmr S cicty ar.d its 2,000,000, vc1^~~rteers throughout the United States is the eradication of cancer in man. The American Cancer Society stands firmly and confidently on.the mass of evidence, statistical, epidemioliogical and bioloEicsl, that the smokino of _efEarettes is.the major carse of 1'ung cancer in man6 The culh.:inati,nl ;nl; evidence de>>eloped' in the Aunrbach-Ha.-^-:-,d' report denonstrates that dogs, can get The findings of the study were madec p:ililic at a scientific meetin,r, of' the bmerican Cancer Society held in conjuncti.on:wit-h a r..eetiug of its Board of .IIirectors. This was an open mecting to which physicizns, other scier•tists ---nd represcntat ives of research and cducati cnal inst'ztutions were inviited to attend. The Societ:y had held i:my such scicntiific meetings in tlie past aa:d Will Socictyy and throaSh it to :hc: public vas the rcaar;:3b1y significant d: ta c•bt;tincd 5-n support of t}ie t.heory that the ]ess tar xn' ni.cotinc in thc: nainstrc::;:~ of

sraoke, the lcss the risk of emPhyscma and ]ung cancer. In other words, where in the study, rio cancers were produced in the dogs. , For years some segments of the cigarette industry•have attacked warnings f the dangers c:f cigarette smoking and prot~sted. that no one had been --ble to produce lung canccr in aniL:als~.wi t:.h cigarette sr.ioke. This has nosr been done. This finding secns to be more important to.the cigarette industry than to the ACS. The ACS and most scicntists believe the Ha=ond and Auerbach findings are interesting' and significant, but even more important is -- - = of cigarette smAing that exist in what happ ens to man, the proof rsortality.rates an& in the changes in lung tissue of human beings. of tha risks = Tfie Tobacco Institute attacks the American Cancer Society for "its use - of publicity techniques." This comes from an industry that for years has relied - _ on pubj icity and zdvertising to obscure the basic fact that cigarette sraoi:ing is the znain cause of lung cancer in man. v1e are naturally gratified that the industry which has so long resisted scientific evidence apparently has now been converted to the principals of scientific validation, at.least in this instance. •There never has been any restriction against individual scientists visiting the Veterans Ac minis tration Hospital at East Orange and reviewing the research with Drs. Auerbach and Hamond. A iiumoer of distinSui.sned revim?ed the fi.ndinSs. Bcc4usc of the great public interest in the link between cigarette szioki_ng and lun;; cancer, the ACS is reqtiesting the Surp,eon General of the United States .......e. _ ~..,.._.~._ . ~ - ~.-~ . -:.~- - `Public Health 3: rvice to conduct a;z analys':s of t:he Ifia,,ond and Auerh.:^ll ::tv.~ - ------- -~.._ _ .. .,.-