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whi.ch are heals:hzer than U . S . m¢1es as a whole .
Sc :c:ondl.y, tho low death rates for non-f;mekers sug7est
tho pos•nihil9.ty that the studies recruited unusua.lly
he[=,1thy groups of non•emo'.ceree ." (P . 96)
ke).i.ah7 .c genoralieation cannot safely be based or ,
sttu7ies of such unrepresentative popul.ations: .
r . Yn connection w9.th bi.adder canccr : somo writers
boli.eve that thi.s 9.r casually related to heavy cigarette
sn:oL:ing . X t im noteworthy therefore that at the 1963
luacr9.can l3fblic: Health Associ.at9 .on mo otina, a distin6'ui .shod
proponent of this hypothosis obsorvod that "there are in••
sui'i'ici.ent dnt.a to warr•a nt conolvsione;, an® the avai.lnble
data are often contradictory ." 7t eioe.ns to mo pcrsonalZy
that tlwre f.1`O compar0ble levol0 of ineo]ApletenCEs or
contra,cti.ctorinesv in the lung cancer and chronic bronchitis
datffi .
5 . Tn connection with coronary axtory diseae.e, the
Roporf : atresres that the causativo role of cigarette nmok-
ing in death :a from this disease iei not proven, and that
whi.l.e male c :i6aroti:e a:mokers do have higher reported
death rates :trom coronary astery disease than do non-
smoACCrn "it is not ol .ear that the associ.ati.on hae caur .al
siCni.1'icance ." (kp . 38-39) .
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At the A+.le)ricnn {6oaP.•t AE:Soeinti.onr annual meet$.ng in
1963 31fF.ny F;j~enkers opined thht toh9Aco probably haa a
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