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X OTHER ANTl-CIGAilETTE CLAIMS 



Let's \<Ak n^^lt some of the anti -cigarette cUims often made 



ia television and radioQzomrnercials and by various government pamphlets. 



- "Smoking Cuts Vogr Uf« by 8. 3 Years" --This claim, with which 

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 no doubt you are familiar, was'^vestigated by Congress during the 1969 



-■Oiearings. In the course of that investigation. Congressman Richardson 



Prej'er, of North Carolina, had this to Siy; 



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'-^/."This statement is based on a stat?«^al study by Dr. E. 

 -Cpyler Hammond who has refused io-disclo»e the raw data 

 (jvitis studies so as to p>€rnnit independeViVeviluation. " 



Bere ($« have a claim said to be a fact, baS4$il on information said 

 to be a fact,*(|^XBD a ^entist who will not reveal how he ^9^s K.^ ^ *■ 

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The "statistic*! stii^" to which Congressman Preyer referred 

 is an extensive mortality Sto^y b^g^i* years ago by Dr. Hammond for the ^ 



American Cancer Society. As doubt leit^^^ou are aware, the Surgeon General's 



1964 Report incorporated many of the (indmbs from this study. In view of 



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 the magnitude of the controversy touched otf by ^bat report, and the pitch 



of intensity the dispute has since attained, it la imp>^^ble to understand 



this seeming reluctance on the part of Dr. Hammond to submit the raw data 



to open, impartial analysis. ^ ^ 5 



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In any event, this work of Hammond's is nothing more ttfeg a ' ** 



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athematical calculation, and anv causal interpretation of it is subjected 



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