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~~ JU ~~ 7t., f July 25, 1970 ~.,_ .. , "~. L.•J- ~Y~~~ ~:~.I~.;:L....et'_ 1:5... .~u1. o~ J`tu. l1o~ LUNG CANCER MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOhJS Contributors: Don Bingham, Joan Jennings, Jane Kinderlehrier, Sigmund S. Miller, Ray 1lrolfl ten oellar grant the tebacco industry had made to the Amerrcan AredicallAssociaUonito investugate whethar ~~.i,ho ;nc..rted in the throat, : nd as a result had experienced'nunerous changes inithe lungs including cancer, emphysema ond iirici.errirry u~ ii:ear ie, re~. ;= Alth0oeh i; was denie!t th, the AJ1i1 Jn.rn,aI nrd^ ~ed th- me~ r~y';n~q ,?jj~;L nr _^., I n ss :~t o ic~ on in t~ ~urn I w e-n s!+m nd h+?d the n pts that h nlarn~~d'tc_C~ ubn;~ -77 I fetTttiat his chti , Nonc of th.e press were impo(ite cno un io attempt to link the r..jecrcn to a recent E i ht^_ s ~eport to zr c her i~~rna!' ~ ~~ ~ a,>licklycalled by Dr. Hugh Hl Hussey, editor of theAd7A Journa!, •.viho elaimed th.;the did not know wiere the. ~ Tobacco Institute bad gotten its information and that he had notrejected the manuscript in question, but simply returned itwith swgg.estions for revision. ', `` Prepared by Dr. Oscar Auerbach, senior medicallinvesrigator at the Veteran's Administration Ho -pita! in East ' Orange, New Jersey, and profeasor of pathology at, New York Medical College, and by Dr. E. Cuyl r Hammond, 1 vice president ofThe Ame.•r,can Cancer Society, the study had been presented origma?l+; to the Ch„st Physician section of the AMA Convention in June. It describedlhovvbeEgles h--d been taught to smo?ie cigarettes through `:.Boi;ert Rodale EdNSr J. I. Rodale Publisher Hera!d J. Taub Managing Editor A research stUdy showino that dogs taught to smoke had deve!oped lung cancer as a result has been refus2d ( publication by the Journal of ilic.imer-icarr:i;edical ffsscria;iou. Uniquely, that fact was first announced by the • ~~~s's>t~+~ntzfthe Tobacco Institute, Inc., Horace R. KorneJay, to a group of tobacco warehousemen on Juli~ 7; ~ 1r>•us3'-uV his announcement, Kornegay stated!that "This so-called scientific work is simplyunacceptablis to the j -„ -scientific community." i-/r By July 8 it began to seem that Kor~neoay might have been injudicious. Medical writers began asking one ~.F  aiiv hur. Y,ilen ,hepresroerriof tiie.Tob-acco ins*.itute had become a sporesman,for tile:scfentltlc communlty'and ll iiow he happened'to have this information that had in no way been releascd to the press. A press conference was there is actually a relationship betweemcigarette smoking and lung cancer. i-1- , CHlLD,°,E[i! ARE SUCCUItiii3lldG TO FOU~: AIR 1 !_ l L L . Children are contracting more asthma and eczemaiin areas of high air pollution,according to astudy of 15 years of hosplte3l recore5 madle in CrIG l,oFlrtty,.NewYorK. The younger tlla chtld the ufeater thdl iar:.it.Wo3 s+ow~i in the investig3tion conducted by a team of'researchers from the State University ofi \ew York at Buftalo and other institutions. Their tabulated results brought out U.at "The incidence rate fer hospitalized cases under 5 years of age is more than 3 tirnes higher than the rate for children,5 to 16 years of age." fiesu!ts of the Erie County study were released by researchers Harry A. Sultz and Joseph G. Feldman and their associates iniJUne. Hbspital records ofchi!dren under 15 years of<ge from 1045 tl rough 19611 revealed'th3t the avaraga annual incidence rate of childhood asthma jurnped from 32.4 to 50.7 per 100';0J3 populc.tion at risk betvvearrthe lov.est and!highest air pollution arras. Statis:ics en boys under 5iehowedl?n increase frornC:9:2 ta 117.5 in rt:tes pcr 100,000'populction atrisk ir: lowest air po!iutiorrzreas. Previou.s <tudic•s tiad~also found that boysare monc sus- ceptible to asthma. During,the period spanred by the study, which is one of the fihst to investictatc the long-term effects of air poflution exposure on the heallh of children„617 Ei ie County chilJrcn hadibeenl?ospitalized for: asthma, anri 165 had been treated'for =ema: The long-term effect>: of,air pollution on children supports th^ contention of some dcctor ' thn rllost allergies n"u'Jt Dt'.L`Jr(1L eStab:11.~791! lJy the year of Ilf ;,° Since both diFe<.~i;sare l.novan to be allergr^ phenomena, thc , m,, child rnay de,~e;op asthma as v:ell as eczerna from air pollution. In fact, say tl c investigators, "about 5J p^r ccnt of tl rnfint cczemaic s s have somc~ fur m of,n.,,^.iratory alle;cy in L?~,.r ;lfe." 1 hcir rcportsupFut Ls lh.. gro.ving conviction th .t r. ,v,ronnr°nt.r' polllnio;t is a n-rajor contrii::utor to chronic disease. _