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WsbN-.SnLE iN Toul~,vAk q1 rc~~ 70 ~ ~~g ~ eagles, Srn~kingAniele t a BeTrinted I I F I I I.. I I I- L A controversial experiment that used beagle doos in evaluating the relationship of, cigarette smoking to cancer will be pubGshed by a scientific journal. the study decided to submit their papers to her f o r publication. " "Smokino is a major public health problem of our time and~ tthese findings deserve to be Dr. Katharine Boucot o f( published;" she said. She added -ZVynnewood, Pa., editor of the ~ that she welcomes all types of' Archives o f Environmental Hpalth; told the 1Vinston-Salpm JournaI by telephone yesterday she plans to pub:ish the study in manuscripts and that many of them are rejected. Her publica,ion, one of 10 a press conference in New York, a letter in April that said, "The City. " American Cancer S o c i e t y' s The gist of the findina was exploitation of this unpublished that cancer of the human type worf: for publicit'y purposes is had' been produced in beagle truly tir-ithout precedent in the does from cigarette smoke scientific community. And in inhalation. June, the Tobacco Institutee suggested in a letter to the Since that announcement the president of the A m e r i c a n ,tobacco industry has sought the .1ledical Association that "it full data on the Cancer Society might be helpfutif the AIIA at experiment' "for evaluation by a this point. would release the. panel of independent experts.to substance of the reviews in its be designated by the Tobacco possession concerning t h i s lnstitute and subject to the study, including any negative. lapproval of the A m e r ic c a ni findings." ,Cancer Society." The institute Also in June the Tobacco lotfcred to bear the costs oC such Institute called on, the Cancer a winter issue, possibly , in ~ specialized publications of the December. She said she could I American :liedical. Association not say just when: has about 9,000 circulation and The studS, she said, has been is distributed throughout the returned by reviewers s h e ~ world. The maiw eomphasis of h hl i h ne, s e er mont 3 maeaz selected "to tear it apart" and i report'~ back to her. The findings are now being prepared for publication. said, is preventive medicine and;'a retitew. Society by letter "to a;ree to impartial review which we -i the ucli" o bl f t r en nmen s pro ems o I The American C2ncer So as pollUtion: etety's reply to the tobacco have requested"' and stated, The stud y done by Dr: Oscar industry v, as that it wouU not "there is now good reason to Her policy,, she said, is not to querbach, a research arantee ob'las'•; these scientists to submit lisuspect 'hat this report' was far disclose the names of reviewers lthe American Cancer Soclet};,Itheir findings "to any selected, frcm accurat'e and that it is of such papers. \o editor does ( d •I H d l committee chosen by thei likely that none of the dovs de• ~ D E C this, she said. u} er ammon , a ~ an r. , vice president of the American( ToSacco Institute or any othe I veloped lung cancer." Dr. Boucot said she did not know just why the authors of ~-• Cancer Society, was announcedleroLp; by the Cancer Society Feb. 5 at~l The: Tobacco InstitutP criticize the American Cancer ( Society for the way it handled the report of the dog experi- ment and its failure to permit ;'an impartial review. % Dr. Huoh H. Hussey of FChicago, editor of the American 1lfedicat Association's Journall jtold! the Winst'on-Salem Journal by telephone yesterday that his jpublication had given Auerbach 'and Hammond an opportunity to "resubmit their manuscripts" to the A:%f A 'Journal. Auerbach and Ham- -mond decidecl uot to send their manuscrii?ts back, There had been claims by the ,Tobacco Institute that t h e iAmeivcan Medical Association had rejected the papers pre= pared by Auerbach a n d Hammond. This was not exactly the case, Hussey said. The .papers submitted: to t h e American Medical Association Journal were submitted to the Consultants who made critical xuogestions for revisions. Hussey said the papers of Auerbach and Hammond could ' have been published by the : AMA Journal with corrections and revisions as suggested by h consultants = „ ~ e rt: s<W.,, , -s.Qr "A, :A,sr+WtA~. ~t The tobacco industry throu.gh issued its institute has continued to i ,