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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 Report Mineral Does NNotot Cause but EnhancesSmokiSnmokging Dangers es ential y cancer researchers say thesame Kannersteinand they they have confirmed Churg reported indicating through confirmed human documented in- cases the theory that creased incidence of lung cer occupational exposure to* cancer among asbestos| asbestos enhances the can workers cannot be attri- causing effects ciga-buted to asbestos alone Fs ret mokeThis agrees with a find- Asbestos exposure Asbestos byit- ingbya leading asbestos reported Wed. nesdaydoes not appear to Celikoff of Mt.Sinai that findings increase the incidence of occupational exposure to lungcancer among asbes- asbestos does not appear tos workers who do not to cause cancer among` ; smoke nonsmokers ~ The incidence of lung =at Studies Confirmed caneer among cigaret- the re- smoking asbestos workers searchers said confirm was 92 times as high as it studies ap is for nonsmokers not ex- proaches asrecords reviewing to asbestos posed } medical records but come from what they said was A Cocarcinogen the first study appear aware ofbasedonactual . Kannerstein Churg- |f _ Starts | cancer specimens __ said that it is as a cocar- The report inthe journal - cinogen in combination ; Cancer a publication of the cigaretsmoking that AmericaAn merican asbestoseffect _written bytwo patho- | A similar situation has New logists Dr. Milton Kanner- beer suggested for lung "steionf the Barnert cancer among u,, anium orial Hospital Center in miners they said Medicine ' Paterson and Dr. Ja- The authors said they cob Churg of the Mt. Sinai were forced to assume School of inin New that cigaret smokers exist- ' | Work ed with the same frequen- . - said study The pathologists cy in their two they compared 50 lung . groups as they do in those cancer cases in patients groups atlargebecause oc upational y on Sil qualit exposed to smoking histories were all the available control control cases in persons groups The researchers '' oO abe 4 not exposed The major features of 7 said they were confident the assumption did not the cancersinboth lead to major error SALESAT RECORD HIGH |: - JAAR