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i ~ a/C:~ CHICAGO, ILL. TRIBUNE D. 805,924 - S. 1,131,752 CHICAGO METRO?OLITAN AREA WASHI?\'GT0N, Oct. 12 (A1-- The tobacco industry said to- day the American Cancer So- , eiety may have perpetrated a I boax by reporting earlier this ' i year that rigaretpuffing' labora-', tory dogs developed lung can- cers. cers. Horace R. Kornegay, presi= , dent of the Tobacco Institute, Inc., said in a letter to Congress that the cancer society's report released Feb. 5 "may be one of ) the great scientific hoaxes of our time." Cancer researchers reported' ; 12 healthy beagle dogs, trained to inhale unfiltered cigaret smoke twice a day for two and :. a half years, developed lung: cancers. Two of the cancers ! were described as similar to the type humans ineur. Not Published in Journals The cancer society said at the ; time the research "effectively !• refutes" claims that there's no link between smoking cigarets and lung cancer. The research was described as the first to months later, however, the re- search still has not been pub- lished in any professional medi- cal journal. A. M. A. Denies Rejection He said at least two mcdical publications, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Jo::rnal of Medicine, had refused to pub- lish the study because it had first been released to news me= dia- and because of "unfavor- produce produce lung cancer in an ex- 1?orirnontal animal which in• hated smolcc as numans ao, Kornegay said that eight i able reviews by a dozen inde- pendent authorities." In Chicago, a spokesman foithe A. M. A.,n id the Journal's editors had not rejected the study but returned it to the authors with suggestions for revisions. Ho said revisions had: been made and two reports on the study would he published in the December issue of "The Archives of Environmental Health," a specialty journal of the A. M. A. Another A. M. A. official said it is not unusual for _articles submitted to the `Journal to be returned with suggestions for revision and added "it had nothing to do with prior publi- cation of the study" in the news media. Data Requests Iporcd Kornegay said one of the principal authors, Dr. E. Cuy- ler Hammond, an official of the American Cancer Society, has since "publicly reduced the number of dogs claimed to have developed lung cancer from 12 to 2." The tobacco industry spokes-n man also said that the cancer society has ignored four Tobac- co 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 "misled the publie." He said the tobacco industry "is funding more independent scientific research in the field of Smoking and health than any other organization, governmen- tal or private," and is prepared to put more funds into such research. .