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Page 25 OTI0033027 NIsAALO-EIIAMIN6R IAB Angeles, Ca13fOrIIis June 30, 1964 AN EXPERT SAYS: CIGARETS ARE SAFE WASHINGTON, June 30 (OPII-dncreasing evidence tends to link lung cancer more with tumea hem auta engines than with smoking, according to Dr. Thomas H. Burford. St. Loula. Bttrfont, who testified before the House Gommeree Committee, Is professor of thorade surgery at Wash. Ington Unlaerelty; chief of thorade and cardtovaeeular sargesy. Baraes aad A!! t e d Hospftala, and roueder• mlemtar o! !be Noei+l rf 0"~rb *n!g•r-r He said his aayor 6nterest bas Been tep alpgnoels and treatment of lung cancer, and eathaoted he hae g"gtr_a more than d00fl easea I do aad seueee snas innE cancer is asssAa by eiss~e: sisax..!} 3ad I do ttoE beilove that miaFlag Is m eponalble for any shortening of tlte." he satd. "llTe oftquoted statlst{cs pnrporting to praoe that smoking does cauae luag eancer et does ehol'ten hamBn life have done nothing more than perhaps estabNsL eer• udn statistical associations which fell far aholt of prev- tag a causal connection." Burford held that a large volume of good wkatNle evidence tends to reMtr the "rather hastily accepted premise" that clgaret amoldug Is causally related to lung cancer. "Of great Importance Is the Increaeing number of reports which tend to a3soslate lung aancer with de contamination by the lmmes of the Internal combustion englne " be sald. 'The.te Is as mueb or mare reason to gsuepeet alr pollutants as there Is to suspect elgaret ltnetdna." NEW YORK TIlW New York, New York June 30, 1964 Report Is 1qxl1utwl WABHIN(iTnN. June 29 (AP) - A gt. Iaule surgeon aho speetaUsea In treattng lung cancer testified today. ' I' do not believe that lung ean• cer Ia caused Sy clgarette ,aad I do not believe gmo is~po aetble for any aAO ot lite' The enTpeon, Dr. Thomas H. M aaiJ that "so loag as e of caaeer Is uoknown It would seem only reasotable, that to ralse an aiarm aboutl elgaeotte emokfngg te unvcat- ranted" "We are producls~ a disease worse than cancer. Mr. Sue• fond eald ta testlmoay betore Lhe House Commerce Commit• tee. "-oancer phobSa.,' Tde ¢ammlttee te eonsfdeefng 10 bala varlouevvsye for the werameat lo curtall cigarette smoking. t3ome bills were Introduced after a apecJel analaory last January eaylag dgarette smoking msy cause d canoer and dineseL F.T.C. leeued Bu1e The Federal Trade Commle- afon, basing Ite decision ea the r8port, nmed a lnle last week reqlring cigarette labels and $ att ye~to arem Customers tb dangerous health heeerd. But teatfmoay by Dr. Bur- ford and two other witnesses, a statistician and a heartape. ~ dfep~uted the health rep The statiatlelsa, Alaa & Don- nahoe. sald the report was baxd on ha~haasrd statistlcal methods and hwhat we are deal- 2wlth fe not so much solen- o method as It !s geleattNe Qu~ea whork~." ry I. Rueaek,~ of the United 8tates Public gealtb lag aq ~+da r~esea~rce eeo~wed~tnat emotmnal etrma from a D~ roe ~ t~dlse~asre~~ t0