The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer

The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 8 Other Cancers

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Other Cancers: General

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"Q. Does cigarette smoking cause cancer? "A. I don't believe so. There's been no

conclusive scientific evidence that convinces me that cigarette smoking causes

cancer. "Q. This warning on the package which says that smoking causes lung

cancer, heart disease and emphysema is inaccurate? You don't believe it's true? "A.

That's correct. "Q. Because if you believed it were true, in good conscience you

wouldn't sell this to Americans, would you, or foreigners, for that matter? "A. That's

correct."

Andrew H. Tisch, chairman and CEO, Lorillard, in a deposition in a case brought

by airline flight attendants exposed to tobacco smoke (Washington Monthly,

February 1994, p. 6)

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Since the 1950's, the tobacco industry has claimed that the evidence linking cancer

with smoking is "merely statistical," and that it is "premature" to accept the "casual

theory" that smoking may cause cancer. The point "is to insinuate doubt, to reassure

smokers, and to stave off regulation through a combination of wishful thinking,

nonsequiturs, and faulty logic."

Cancer Wars, p. 106

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"To my knowledge, it's not been proven that cigarette smoking causes cancer."

William Campbell, President and Chief Executive, Philip Morris USA.

New York Times, December 7, 1993

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The common belief that there is an epidemic of death from cancer in developed

countries is a myth. If the tobacco-caused cancer deaths are taken away, then the

remaining cancer death rates are declining.

9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (Richard Peto)

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