432 



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3. > AAd-Lng to this another unsupported but "reasonable 

 estimaW'^Af 60, 000 excess deaths for women, who had 



c6in^< 



not bec6 in7Bi<l*d in the earlier estimates. 



In the final anaiysK; we are left not with a statement of fact. 



dv'even 



but with guesswork, and ndi-'even good guesswork bujt a kind of patchwork 



'J. 



gjesswork; in short, a large, tery,ifying. and meaningless statistic. 



-^ » "Smoking Turns Your Lungs Kack" --Tlus assertion prompted 



many qiiestions in the 1969 Congressional heaPings. However, a number 



of pathologists and other doctors testified that thef^ was oo way to tell a 



■V- \ 



smoker's Iudb frwp a non-smoker's lung. Here is soft© of tbelr testimony. 



Dr. Doanex^*"" Professor of Surgery at the Unl^g^rsify of 



Tennessee College of Medti^c, said this: 



"Smoking doe« not dijcolor the lung. " 



Dr. Victor Buhler. PathoISgtet at St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas 



City: '^. 



"I have examined thousands of hings)»oth grossly and micro- 

 scopically. I cannot tell you from exa^Oning a lung whether or 

 not its former host had smoked." ^^ 



'^^ 

 "I state flatly, unequivocably and emphatic ally Hhat cigarette 

 smoke will not turn the lung black." 



" / « 



Dr. Sheldon Sommers, Pathologist and Director of Lati^M lories' * 



at Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York: 7 ^ 



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