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The study on tobacco company employees';was reported by the major press associations and has been noted*in papers~throughout the country, rivaling the attention given to the iloyal College report. JoURNAZ-TINES, . Racine, Wisconsl.'n, ,~ , -5~ I0~3' S~J"l i March 5 1962 , THE NEW' Yr'1RK ' TIbIDS New York, 111ew York ~ ~ ~~, Niarch'5,~ 1962~' ~ ~ STUDY' CONTRADICTS 6q,, S,~?OKlNG-DEATH LINK' ~ h.'rctory employes of the Amer- ~ lcau Tobacco Company smoke t` more than the'averat;e, yet havif (~ a limwrr' death rate than the. arj,eral population in the satne' cex, age and racial grouping. ~ 1 according to a report in the (~(l marr.h,issue of'Industt•iaUbfedi- ~ cine and Surgery. The report was the third on ~' lhie 11,000 emplopses covering a \ fonrtt^r.n-yoar period. The nt:t- ers showed that their deai !r • mtes from cancer and heat 1 disease were also' below aver- i, a;,,e, accm•ding to the authors. IDrs. Rocrt K. Heimann of' A'meric•an Tobacco and Jacob Cohen of New York L'niversity. The report called the findings "contradictory to the hypothesis lhat cigarette smoking, per se, is cau ally' related to increased mrortality; from all causes, from respiratory tract cancer, or fir.n:, heart disease." An American Cancer Society statistician commented that employe groups generally had lower death rates than,the pub- lie„ a-hich, includes the chron:t- ally ill' afld others in "hign- risk" ~categorie5. Empl'oyes Who Smoke Live Longer . . ., NEW YORK - W - The'from cancer or heart' d'isease1 The American Tobacco Co. American Tobacco Co. re•4than t'he general public." IIsaid their employes who were i ret at k di di d h ported, to its employes today the latest three-year chapter in a sttidy, of' death rates among 11,000 fellow workers. Generally Lower These employes, the report said. "smoke more, live longer ga c s e smo e e,stu A statistician from t American Cancer Society,1twice the,average UIS. rate commenting on the study, ;but had a less-than-average said employe groups general-! death rate. The average death, ly have a lower death, rate'.rate is the percentage of per- ' t'han the general public, since'sons who die in this country the public includes many peo-:each year cornpared' with the ulat' ion ntire o rou s" h d th rate l i hi . p p p } g p n g ea e such as the chronir.a:1; Cite Rate d h • ' an ax e had fewer dieaths indigents and so fr,rth: . The comnanv said' their : THE WASNIIDTCTON DAILY NEwS Washington, D.C. March 5, 1962 ;.roup's death rate was 71 per cent' of' th'e average: and' also was 71 per cent of the aver- a;e death ralte for respiratory cancer over a 141j!Z-year period. The company cited a study FREE S;MOKES' FOR' TOBaACCO, WORKERS publishedd inthen ivlarchisswe of' Jhdusirial Medicine and • t` ~ ••,Surg?ry. It was written by P/~~I ~~te`,tiii'i~/~.M~ 1'YJ~~J. H Atoberi: K Heirnann of the American Tobacco Co. and J a acob Cohen of New York Smoking .i~ ' 'irlVfs' ~or ~fl~~ UTheyitsaid; "these results are in dlirect' opposition to the'. NEW YORK, l1a.rch S' (I1P1) - Gigai'et factory empioye.g are offered a, free pack of srrtokes eachi Vorksr-e day. So it's no wondel• they:.ght tip more. often than the average Almerican who J?ayTs as he puffs. But according to a pltivatee research study, those whoi work at cigaret factories also, suffer less from lung cancer and other diseases occasion- ally associated with smoking. However. they adrled, this tesult' "is not astoni:aung" irN- view both of the group s;°Va, - tational: irot'erest intheprorl- tlct it manufactiures and the proviston of a free pack of rigarets each wrurking,day:"' The researchers also found the observc•d deaths of the Rm!ployes over the 19I?~ year period were only 71 per cent the number anticipated under mortality tables covering such tl population sample:. At the same time, the re- aort s a i dl, the employes s h o w e d lower-than+average hypothesis that cigaret smok- ing', per se causes higher mor- taliity' rates generally and for lung cancer and, or heart' disease." These conclusions w e r e mortality rates for individual drawn from a 14 'r-year stut:ly c: us4 of 11,000 employes attobaceo Can~ deaths were listed Ioiants in Richmond. ~ ~ a,, Dur- `iam and Reidsville. :ti. C., and aa 70 Per cent of expected, Osewhene.. re,piratoty cancer deaths as . The a u t h o r's :said they 4onclusions "are cont radichory : found among the 'tobacco to the' hypothesis that' r•iRa- .vorkers "more than twice as i"Et smoktng,per se is oasclallwv many more than 'Npper{lst9y relatedd to Increased mortality.' rigaret smoknrc as tl~e lwr- from all causes, from respiu•- •.nr,toinnin t,, •1 1t °'AtirlrV' fT' nt'. !' Iir -• - P e a tle t fivrgrry. ;. The authors rlot d ih '1• .. The findings were- lnade . 71 Der cent of expected, cardio•. l-ublic'yesterday. b~~ Dr.•Jacuh ~'aseular dearths,as 75 per cent t'ohen, and Dr. Athbert K. Of expected and', coronary lteimann in the March iscue dHaths as 79 per cent of, •.b Iqdus't~rial %ledici-neamd erWtpd. - . ian Av~r~g~ ..-~~Sa~s ~~~ ~Tobacco ~' ~ ,,~ ,. ,.