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lot of corn. It was ||1jkf learned, of course, that pellagra was caused by 



a vitamin deficiency^ aWlh^ reason people got pellagra was that they were 



not eating other foods^il^ch voold have supplied essential vitamin require- 



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If cigarette smoking^s.to be co/ivicted of causing lung cancer, a 



lot of questions must first be answered. These include the following as 



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-.1. Why is it that the vast majority jb/ cigarette smokers don't get 

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In recSflthearings before a Congressional G^rimlttee, Dr. Duane 



Carr, Professor «f SoMery, University of Tennessee Col^je of Medicine, 



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and former presicJenl of tlr^^Southcrn Thoracic Surgical AssocraKon, ipoke 



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If only smokers ^evelopt^ lung cancer — which is not 



true— and if there ^t;* 70 m<^ion smokers — which is a Si 



pretty good estimate— then tHi^_p[ung cancer deaths 



reported in a given year would p^present about one 



case for each 1,400 smokers. I bebeve that figure 



is far higher. I think it is a typog^ap^ical error. If 



we consider only lung cancer specifier's originating 



In the lung the figure would be about one-ojft of every 



3, 500 smokers. Such an incidence Is Incort^Galible 



with the theory that cigarette smoking causea^-^ncer. " 



The point here is not to minirr.ize the problem of WJg cancer or 



its importance as a medical problem. Certainly, it is a terrible' 4*:Sease 



but the hypothesis concerning cigarette smoking and lung cancer Is indeed 



difficult to accept when relatively few of the very, very many people who 



Smoke are stricVcr. with the disease. 



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