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In Janu»rr,: 1965, Emerson Foote, a former advertising executive. 



attacked cigarettes as^Blsing 12S.000 to 300. 000 deaths a year. He was 

 at the time Chairmarfirthe ffational Interagency Council on Smoking and 



Health. G^ ■' 



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Soon a government -effvcial. Dr. Daniel Horn, Wrt ggjing In a 



speech that smoking was responsiM© for at least 125.000 ^5»#t»iTe deaths 

 •5 '9 . ■ - * " 



a year. His source, he said, was the ^>\airinao of the Council. 



% 

 "'■^ Mr Foote was asked In a hearing before the U.S. Congress, where 



he gothisfiMres. His reply: From the goveri^nt! 



8o th<(jball was shot back to Dr. Horn, wtejhen OMUited up 138,000 



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dcaths-33, 5^ froM^^yng cancer, $0. 000 from coronary3isea»», 16, 500 from 



bronchitis and c'rnUiyse/!ia. and e.OOO from cancer of the oraC)fiavt^; esophagus. 



larynx and bladder. 'C^ 



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 To achieve thic^toire.Caf . Horn had arbitrarily included several 



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diseases which were not-claimed evertT^ the Surgeon General's Advisory 



Committee Report to be causally related fp-^moking. 



lAter^ the then 0. S. Surgeon Genec^ Dr. Luthlr Terry, under- 

 took to explain tJTe 300, 0« Hfw-e. He did th4•J>y<^^ ' " " ^ - 



1, Taking as his basis the unsupported esfpi^iwtlon of 

 138,000 deaths. -^•:, 



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2. Adding to it another unsupported 102,000 jdei^Pfcr \>, rS 

 "from diseases where the relationship to cigarette ^ 



smoking, while not so obvious, is nevertheless clearly 

 indicated. " 



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