Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tobacco Institute Spokesman George V. Allen, pressed for comment, said he had not had time to read the full 387-page report with its 80 tables, added: "I endorse wholeheartedly Dr. Terry's call not for less but for more research...
...tobacco industry, which is already supporting a considerable body of health research, stands ready to increase that support." Though the Surgeon General's committee insisted that the "causal relationship" of smoking to disease has been proved, it can agree with the tobaccomen that the mechanisms of causation remain to be found...
...only way to relieve the danger of lung cancer from cigarette smoking is to remove the polonium, Radford said last night. He suggested that the tobacco companies would find it "economically feasible to treat tobacco leaves chemically" to remove the polonium...
Polonium, the researchers maintain, occurs naturally in the tobacco leaf, since it is absorbed through the roots of all green plants from the soil. It is also absorbed to a lesser degree from "natural fallout" in the atmosphere...
There is reason to believe, Radford said, that the polonium content of pipe and cigar tobacco is about the same as in cigarettes, but that the cancer rate is lower for pipe and cigar smokers since they do not inhale as much. However, he added that cancer of the mouth and esophagus is about as frequent in all smokers...