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I I I I IT I I Ii i Oct. 13, 1970 Page 11-A 1 = _ . .: THE : COL'IIIER•JOLIIATAL,JOLIIATAL, LOUISVTLLE, IiY. - TUESDAY -?ING, ' .-::. : . ,. :.. oad`d/, Tobacco Industry LJ ays . , -- ..: W .i. . 1': WASHINGTON (AP) = The tobacco haled smoke as humans do. industry yesterday said! the American Cancer. Society may have perpetrat'ed a hoax by reporting earlier this year that cigarcttc-puff'inb, laboratory dogs devel- oped lung cancers. - - Horace R. Kornegay, president of the Tobacco Institute, lnc., said! in a letter to Congress that the Cancer Society's re- port released 1i eb:, 5"may be one of the great scientific hoaxes of our time:"' Cancer researchers reported that 12 healthy beagle dogs, trained to inhale un- Kornegay said that eight months later, however, the research still has not been published in any professional medicaL journal. He said at least two medieal pub- lications, the Journal' of, the Arnerican Medical Association and the New Eng- land JournaI of, Medicine, had refuscd to publish the study because it had first' been released to news media and because of "unfavorable reviews by a dozen in- dependent authorities." In Chicaoo, a spokesman for the Ameri~ d filtered cirarette smoke twice a day,, de- can McdicallAssociation :;aid the journal's velopedi lun, cancer after 2 1/2 yearsi editors had not rejected the study but re- Two cf'the cancers were described as turned it to the authors with suggestions similar to the type in humans. for revisions. ::•The Cancer.Society said at-the time the _ The spckesman said revisions had been research '!effeetively refutes" claims that made and two reports on the study would ; there is no link between~ smoking cigar-. be published in the December issue of ettes and lung cancer. The research was --•the "The Archives of Environmental described as the first to produce lung can• H'ealth," a specialty journal of the A1fA. cer in an experimental animal which in- - Kornegay said one of the principal .. ~, ~... ~. Society's Tekst 0-U 'Do 'S L authors, Dr. E.- Cuyler Hammond, an of.' ficial of the American Cancer Society, has since "publicly reduced the number of dogs claimed to have developed! lung cancer from 12 tb 2." There was no reply yesterday from the Cancer Society. The tobacco industry spokesman also said that the Cancer Society has ignored four Tobacco Institute requests for exam- ination of research methods and data used in the beagle study. Kornegay said the smoking-dogs study "is a misuse of science" which has "mis- led the public:"