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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1972 July 27 DOC NMA034 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Los Angeles Times - Asbestos Lung Cancer From Cigarettes Linked Cigarets Report MineralDoes NNototCause but EnhancesSmokiSnmokging Dangers . researchers es ential y Kannerstein cancer say thesame have confirmed Churg reported indicating - throughhuman documented in-. cer cases the theory that creased incidence of lung causing to asbestos | occupational exposure to cancer among asbestos ~ asbestos enhances the can workers cannot be attri- om effects buted to alone of ing researcher leading Irving ~ nesday doesnot appear Celikoff self to of Mt. Sinai that increase the incidence of occupational exposure to lungcancer among asbes- asbestos does not appear - tos workers who do not to cause cancer among` |} ; smoke an } _ Studies Confirmed These findings the re- searchers said confirm nonsmokers incidence The incidence ofoflung among cigaret- smoking asbestosworkers was 92 times as high as it such ap- studies proaches asrecords reviewing posed toasbestos frommedical records but come F a from whatthey said was is for nonsmokers not ex- . A Cocarcinogen the first appear f aware of based onactual - Kannersteinand Churg- _ Starts StartsStarts lulng ung specimens said that it is as a cocar- , The report in the journal . cinogen in combination Cancer a publicatioonf --- the--- cigaret smoking that _ . effect American | =. was written by two patho- | logists Dr. Milton Kanner- ___} beer similar situation has beer suggested for lung iP New Sil Sil 2<~steinof the Barnert cancer among u,, anium ||. | <"f orial Hospital Center in miners they said - { Sil Medicine |PsattersonN.I. Dr. Ja- The authors said they| cob Churg of the Mt. Sinai were forced to assume qualit . School of inin New _ that cigaret smokers exist- with F^rk ed the same frequen- . qualit said study compared The pathologists- cy in their two ; qualit they 50 lung . groups as they doin those cancer cases in patients groups atlarge because Occupationally exposed to smoking histories were control researchers 7 cases in persons groups The fe ee hee not exposed .* The major features of said they were confident the assumption did not oe cepa tte oe ARE ~ ss the cancers inboth lead to major error ; SALES AATT RECORD HIGH =