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1\'E i+: Y[7I:;c: 'ra;:r:i;S hihY' 9, 1970 PAGL; 24 -~he Cigaret-te-C;ancer Dispme An overwhelming volume of evidence suggests - that ciUarette smoking is harmful and can lcad to lung ..-cancer, emphysema, and various heart and circulatory ; problems. In the Ccr-2^t 'dispiute between The Tobacco Institute and the':."'-ric-r,n Ci?ncer Secict~, however, , ,,.. .....r....u~ z ; the latter organiz,:oit t1~~c+e an errnr c:f -- - iua;:ment . . _. p..- .--...-... - ': which it }:as nov,,c>nly partially rectified. _ ;- Last February Dr. E. Cuyler Harnmond and Dr. -~ Osczr Auerbaclr attracted world attention when~ they _ reported that twelve of 86 bea.alcs trained to smoke ' cigarettes hart deve'_-ned lung cancer. The American : Cancer So_izty, which helped supr ~,rt' this work, : declared the findings "eCfcctivcly refute contentions' by cigarette manufacturing interests that there was , • no cigarette-cancer link." The Iiamnrond~Auerbach results were path-breal:incl and important, but ]ike all pioncerin, investigations they must be scrutinized with perticular care. That the tobacco eon1;^dc.^.6es?;o .~?nt_to c}fccti the d-1ta is ut~c?erV a~ ~i a. and patc•o,n, ists aadd statisticians •'~-- `. freeao:n to examine the ti :c evCi^,l,.e. It V'a° a rnis- take_frr- il:^ A'TTlPr1C"°:1 C?1 er SC . n/v to TCi :it to ask _ 9•„ _ -~..e. ~ .. .. .... ~ ~.....~ ..-,_ , i~e two sc;rntists to"st?bmit their f ir:aing$ to any selected committee chosen by the Tobacco lnstit'ute, -, or any other group." In the face of public complaint by The Tobacco Institute, the An:ericar. Cat;c,~r Society ha_s h?d second t} OUn~ tS> 1L "'S Io\ ^.S' ~CI tl i_S l: ^~O l~cii l ~~ Sfl ,~-- ' -- th^ Z.,:it.'Yl S~~es 7 lb~le ' r. lyli ~~to r.e_v,r,:tN.. ata: p,:a1 : P~ol c~} c~ti~ ~Sc rvic ejs ; lrc4 i~~en iccot;i as beiev:a c?a c;e~s~ to nis dan, ~7t~ouj to l~~altn• Scicntific iruth is dcternlined ulti:,tntely by open cxamination of data~ and fulli discussion by alli com petent persons in a fic,ld- The Ham:,tond-Auerbach results shoul;t be scrutinized! intensively byy all inter- ' csted partics. Any other approach thro%vs needless doubt on the already ovcrV: helmint case <'ainst ciuaretto snno'.tin'g. ~ R 9UP f n V t ® c.z aK i ~~~, J,fi.~ V? i f ~~:' z~