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Smoking-Cancer
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NEW YORK, June 16 (A.A.P).— .
An eminent American scientist today
took charge of a £250,000 project to
determine thev effects of tobacco on
health.
He is Dr. Clarence Cook
Little. Tobacco com
panies laid the plans for
and .supported the re
search programme after
widespread suggestions in
scientific circles this
spring that cigarette
smoking and lung cancer
were closely connected. '
At a press conference
Dr. Little said that he
was the "boss" and ' that
he himself had no boss.
Otherwise, , he con
tinued, he would not
have accepted the direc
tion of the programme of
scientific research.
It was his intention, he
said, to find the correct
scientific answers regard
less of whether or not
they harmed the tobacco
industry.
Nothing had been
proven regarding cigar-
ette smoking and lung
cancer, one way or the
other— otherwise his pro
jected work would be
pointless, he said.
He granted that statis
tical studies and the pro
duction of skin cancers
on mice by painting their
skins with tobacco tara,
were "suggestive" — but
all kinds of things were
"suggestive" of all kinds
of possibilities, he added.
Mice Not Men
He pointed out that
there were "many" sub
stances which could
cause skin cancers in
mice — that mice were not
men, that skin tissues
were not lung tissues,
that 'every human body
reacted differently to any
given sunstance, : tnat
statistical studies show
ing that heavy smokers
over many years have a
higher incidence of lung
cancer than non-smokers
were matters for Intricate
analysis, to search out
the factors, besides smok
ing, which had bearing.
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