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The Council for Tobacco Research- U.S.A.. Inc. 



Si ppoRTiNO Biomedical Investigation 



of oncogenes. The Council was instrumental in supporting 

 early work on the role of free radicals in the etiology of 

 diseases and in opening up the new field of growth factor 

 research. This work, like the rest of the research 

 supported by the Council, has added to the scientific 

 knowledge of the mechanisms and processes of diseases 

 statistically associated with smoking. 



Council grantees are assured complete scientific 

 freedom in conducting their studies. They alone are 

 responsible for reporting their findings in the accepted 

 scientific manner -- through medical and scientific journals 

 and societies. Publication of research results is 

 encouraged in all instances. That Council grantees respond 

 to this encouragement is attested to by the more than 5,000 

 publications that have appeared reporting the results of the 

 Council -funded research projects undertaken by its 1,000 

 grantees. Those articles have appeared in the most 

 respected peer- review journals, including the Journal of the 

 National Cancer Institute , the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association , the New England Journal of Medicine , 

 and the journals Cancer . Heart and Circulation . The Council 

 also prepares and distributes an annual report that contains 



