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...Carl C. Seltzer, Research Associate in Physical Anthropology and member of the Surgeon General's Committee in 1964, revealed his disagreements in an article in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association...
...article, Seltzer writes that "since publication of the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health in early 1964, there have appeared many statements with regard to the relationship of cigarette smoking and CHD which go far beyond the limited conclusions of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee...
...Seltzer noted that almost immediately after the Surgeon General's 1964 report the statements of the public Health Service, the American Heart Association, and other medical groups used such phrases as "caused by" and "associated with cigarette smoking" in describing the relation between cigarette smoking...
...phrases clearly imply," Seltzer said, "that the consequence of smoking cigarettes is a variable amount of excess premature coronary heart disease deaths. But no such implications can be drawn from the conclusions of the Surgeon General's Committee...
...Seltzer added that a close study of the evidence in new reports does not make it any clearer that there is a causal connection between cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease...