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...habitual smoker who was dissatisfied with al most everything he heard before the subcommittee was Kentucky's Thruston Morton, a Senator with his tobacco-farming constituents' interests at heart. Throughout, he sat with a dyspeptic scowl for the medical experts and a curiously unsympathetic attitude toward the Strickman filter, which, if proved effective, could prove a Golconda for his planters. "O.K.," snapped Morton, "we'll all stop smoking, and you'll upset the economy...
Though he will not discuss his formula, Strickman said from his hospital room that cigarettes with his filter will "draw" perfectly well. "I took a form of the same filter material to Brown & Williamson," he said, "but I never entered their laboratories. They were' not interested. Since then I have made some adjustments to make it draw more easily...
...present, he said, at least six cigarette manufacturers-including Brown & Williamson-are satisfied with the Strickman device in its present state of development. Even B. & W. last week was testing the filter, and Inventor Strickman himself said that one com pany has already delivered a contract...
...danger." But what disturbed critics of Columbia's sweeping announcement (Columbia's press release called the filter "a development of far-reaching importance, which promises to benefit mankind") is the fact that tar and nicotine are not the only dangerous elements in cigarettes. Just the day before Strickman's filter was announced, HEW Secretary John Gardner told Congress that one-third of all deaths among American men aged 35 to 60 are hastened by cigarette smoking. Quite apart from the cancer question, said Gardner, smoking is the most important cause of broncho-pulmonary disease, is linked...
According to Strickman, Columbia has now begun a new series of complex studies of the filter's effect on the gases in tobacco smoke, though not on living tissue, and the results may be announced within a few weeks. When asked why the university did not wait for such studies, Strickman replied: "You can research from now to dooms day. But you have to start some place. Do you have any other filters that can do what this one does...