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Benzene Industry Studies Show Similarities to Smoking Studies

From: Scientific Studies on Benzene Health Effects

Statements Made by Eminent Men of Science Who Challenged the "Smoking and Health" Theory During Congressional Hearings

"Neither that evidence [1964 Surgeon General's Report] nor any reported since then suffices to demonstrate that smoking causes any disease."

Leo Katz, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics and
Director of the Statistical Laboratory, Michigan State University.
Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
April 26, 1969

"The concept that cigarette smoking is the cause of the increase in lung cancer and emphysema
is a colossal blunder."

Milton B. Rosenblatt, M.D.
Visiting Physician, Metropolitan and Coler Hospitals.
Associate Attending Physician, Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital, N.Y.
April 28, 1969

"There is no evidence of which I am aware that constituents of cigarette smoke have the capacity to produce dissolution of lung tissue (emphysema)."

John P. Wyatt,
M.D. Professor & Chairman of the Department of Pathology,
University of Manitoba.
Former Professor and Head of Pathology, St. Louis University.
April 28, 1969

"To claim there is now sufficient scientific evidence to establish that cigarette smoking causes disease is, in my opinion, unjustified."

Sheldon C. Sommers,
M.D. Pathologist and Director of Laboratories, Lenox Hill Hospital, N.Y.
Clinical Professor of Pathology,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Clinical Professor of Pathology,
University of Southern California School of Medicine.
Teacher, Cornell Medical School, Tufts-New England Medical Center and New York Medical College.
Research Director, Council for Tobacco Research - U.S.A.

"At the present time to accept cigarette smoking as the cause of cancer of the lung is to do so by edict only."

Hiram T. Langston,
M.D. Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine.
Chief Surgeon, Chicago State Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
President, American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
April 26, 1969

Smokers and Non-Smokers:
Facts You Should Know:

Both smokers and non-smokers deserve to know facts, not innuendo, about cigarettes. Yesterday, Philip Morris and other U.S. tobacco manufacturers helped to set the record straight by speaking before a Congressional committee. For your consideration, here are the highlights of the information presented by Philip Morris in that session.

Fact:
"Philip Morris does not add nicotine to cigarettes."

"The nicotine delivery of all commercial cigarettes is measured and disclosed to one tenth of a milligram, both in public releases by the Federal Trade Commission, and in every advertisement for the last 25 years. In the end, Philip Morris lowers the amount of nicotine naturally occurring in tobacco by between 50% in the case of a Marlboro, and 90% in an ultra-low brand."

Fact:
"Philip Morris does not 'manipulate' nicotine levels."

"We voluntarily opened our manufacturing operations to the Food and Drug Administration, in a good faith effort to resolve the allegations that we add or control its level in our cigarettes. "Our manufacturing process includes over 400 quality control checkpoints and only two of them measure nicotine. In every case, and with every brand we manufacture, the nicotine level in the finished cigarette is lower than the nicotine level of the original, natural tobacco leaf."

Fact:
"Philip Morris does not believe cigarette smoking is addictive."

"People can and do quit smoking all the time. According to the 1988 Surgeon General's Report, there are more than 40 million former smokers in the United States and 90% quit on their own, without any outside help."

Fact:
"None of the ingredients added in the manufacture of cigarettes is harmful as used."

"Cigarette ingredients have been scrutinized by the Department of Health and Human Services since 1986. In addition, an independent safety assessment was conducted by six renowned scientists. Their report concluded: "'The ingredients added to tobacco in the manufacture of cigarettes by the six major U.S. manufacturers are not hazardous under conditions of use.'"

Fact:
"Philip Morris has not used patented processes to increase or maintain nicotine levels."

"Philip Morris, like every other corporation, applies for, and obtains patents on virtually every innovation we pioneer. Philip Morris currently holds over 600 patents. They are publicly disclosed upon issuance through the U.S. Patent Office. Philip Morris has never used any of these patents to increase, or even maintain, nicotine levels in any of its products. In fact, the only nicotine related patents Philip Morris has ever used are for the reduction of nicotine."

Letter from the Tobacco Institute to MOBIL WORLD on October 19, 1978

From: The Trenton Times, Nov. 11, 1990

Additional Reading:
Benzene Industry-Conducted or Industry-Sponsored Studies
   (Often known as junk science)
Manipulated Toxicology Testing in Benzene Studies

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