Word: causalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admitting dourly that "it is rare indeed to find a patient who cannot relate some trauma to his tumor," Dr. Auster said careful analysis of well-documented cancer cases shows a possible causal relationship between physical injury and cancer in only about six out of every 100,000 cases. Said Auster: "Twenty-five thousand people a day are reputedly injured in the U.S. Only four people per thousand have tumors. Were trauma to have significance in tumor genesis, we should be overrun with patients suffering from cancer incited by war injuries, surgical operations, biopsy procedures, industrial and sports accidents...
Despite the fact that the health issue is at the heart of the matter, the industry continues to deny adamantly any direct or "causal" cancer-smoking link. It has spent $3,700,000 to set up the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, which is widely regarded as only a smokescreen for the industry. But fortnight ago two reports came out from medical groups partly financed by the committee, holding that 1) smoking taxes damaged hearts, and 2) tobacco users absorb 90% of the nicotine to which they are exposed...