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Wynder, Ernst L., M.D.

(Epidemiologist, Sloan Kettering, Anti-Tobacco Expert) 1993 First scientist to report in 1950 on the carginocencity of cigarettes in rats painted with tar. Assistant at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Directed the American Health Foundation (AHF) from 1984 to his death in 1998.

Ernst Wynder was President and Founder of the American Health Foundation and SKI, Naylor-Dana Institute. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996). Wynder was a scientist at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who was first able to paint a cigarette-smoke condensate on the backs of mice and produce tumors, per Marc Edell (Jenkins, pp. 184, 192; WSJ 2/11/93.) Medical Student under Dr. Evarts A. Graham at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO in 1949 (E. Whelan 1984). He was a pioneer researcher in the field of tobacco and health (E. Whelan 1984). He was also president/director of the American Health Foundation in 1984 (E. Whelan 1984; UPI 1/12/84). Dr. Ernst Wynder and Dr. Evarts Graham published the results of the first large-scale research on smoking in the 5/7/50 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, "Tobacco Smoking as a Possible Etiologic Factor in Bronchiogenic Carcinoma." He concluded "excessive and prolonged use of tobacco, especially cigarettes, seems to be an important factor in the induction of bronchiogenic carcinoma." (E. Whelan 1984). In May 1950, Dr. Evarts A. Graham, former president of the American College of Surgeons, and an assistant named Ernest L. Wynder published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) entitled "Tobacco Smoking as a Possible Etiologic Factor in Bronchogenic Carcinoma" The study found that of 605 men with lung cancer, 96.5 percent were smokers. In the control group, men without lung cancer, only 73.7 percent were smokers and the authors concluded that "Excessive and prolonged use of tobacco . . . especially cigarettes, seems to be an important factor in the induction of bronchogenic carcinoma." (L. White, Merchants 1988). At the 12/3/53 meeting of the Greater New York Dental Meeting, Dr. Ernst Wynder reported that more than 5,000 lung cancer patients had been studied in England, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and the U.S. All of them had the same condition: "The prolonged and heavy use of cigarettes increases the risk of developing cancer of the lung." (L. White, Merchants 1988.


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   Wynder
   Wynder, Dr.
   Wynder, Dr. Ernest
   Wynder, E.
   Wynder, Ernest
   Wynder, Ernst
   Wynder, Professor
   Wynder, Ernst L.
   *Winder, Ernest