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  1.                                                                                 BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesCIGARETTESSmoke Gets In Their Eyes
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  5.     In search of evidence that cigarette smoking is not dangerous,
  6. the industry-sponsored Council for Tobacco Research spends $18
  7. million a year to bankroll studies by prominent scientists. But
  8. a new poll, published in the American Journal of Public Health,
  9. shows that 93% of the tobacco-funded scientists surveyed
  10. "strongly believe" that most lung-cancer deaths are caused by
  11. smoking. The industry's response is that it sponsors studies
  12. without regard to results. But the survey taker, K. Michael
  13. Cummings of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo,
  14. demurs: "Scientists receiving support from the council should
  15. ask themselves whether the value of their research outweighs its
  16. contribution to an industry that kills 400,000 Americans a
  17. year."
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