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FILE NAME: Smoking (SMOK) DATE: 1972 July 27 DOC#: SMOK062 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Asbestos, Lung Cancer from Cigarettes Linked \unMuly27^1972 ^ofltJtnggtrf H im * tpoctorsReportM ineralD oes^N otCause Diseasebut Enhances Smoking Dangers (B^-Twa groupsJlffiere^essentljiLly, c a n g r rsearchrs. say the same, Kannerstein and ough human-lung-ean-- th a b th e documented in te r cases the theory that creased incidenceof lung pational.. exposure to ' c a n c e r among asbestos asbestos enhances the can- workers cannot he aitri- .Cfericausing effects of cigar.__buted to asbestos alone: ret -smokfe-i -- --This agreesjwlth a find* Asbestos exposure .by it- ing by a leading asbestos ed^ researcher, Dr. Irvm g J . Lhesday, does not appear to Celikoff of M t.Sinai, that ^increase the incidence of occupational exposure to i Iting cancer among asbes-_ asbestos does not appear o s "w r k e r s who do not to cause cancer among' smoke.. ; - ,, nonsmokers. Studies Confirmed These~findings;the re searchers s a i d , confirm | afudies*base d onsyich ap proaches. as reviewing imedical record? but come from- whafr t h e y 'l l ^ was __ =______ -- " -- are The incidence of lung ^caheer.among c i g'a r e tsmoking asbestosTworkers was 92 times as high as it is for npnsmokers not ex* posqd to asbestos. A/Cocarcinogen' "It-would a p p e a rth e m 1- aware" of based on actual *_Kannerstetrf" a n d r Churg ung cancer specimens; said, "that it is as a cocar- , The report in lh e journal ciaogen,. in combination Cancer,hpubticatfcm ofth e - w ithxigaret ampking. th a t American-Cancer-Societyy---asbestoshasarveffect."-- was. w ritten by tw o patho ^ s im ila r situation has logists, Dr. Milton Kanner- beeTt.; suggested for lung steinrpf th e Barnert-Mem cancer a m o n g uranium orial Hospital Center in miners, thejrsaid. Paterson^ NLL,and Dr. Ja The authors said they cob Churg, of the Mt. Sinai were forced to assum e7 ~hbol of Medicine in New that cigaret smokers exist rk. ed with the same frequen The- pathologists .said c y in ' their two study hey compared 50 lung - grdups as they do in those ancer cases in patients . groups"`arnarg(r''becauser' eupationalh exposed to smoking histories w e r e rm f a.-u:qi1ahl<^- f n r a l l t.h ft control cases in persons groups. The researchers not exposed. said they were confident The major features of the assumption did not the . c a n c e r s in both>--lead-to an y m ajo r error. SALES AT RECORD HIGH Newf on Sii Al