BACKGROUND NOTE: Our organization's media relations person tells me that the media loves
anything that involves either kids or animals. In that spirit, today's
document is about animals. Out of all the documents I've read that
mention animals, this one had the most impact:
Quotes:
1) Our dog, which was an inveterate smoker, was placed in a stall to
demonstrate how the animal smoked. We used a University of Kentucky
reference cigarette. The dog's handler...recognized the cigaret to be
'stronger' than the brand they were using, and the behavior of the dog
showed that he too was not used to this kind of smoke.
2) The lighting puff was not given to the dog, but was made by the pump
attached to the cigaret holder. Thereafter the dog did its own
smoking...the amount of smoke could be regulated by the attendant
pinching off the tube leading from the cigaret to the tracheostomy
tube. During the demonstration, Mr. Kirman did this when the dog became
cyanotic, very restless and salivated excessively.
3) During the smoking period, which lasted 8-10 minutes, smoke poured
out of the dog's mouth and nose. There were moments when the animal was
in obvious distress.
4) Mr. Kirman states that there are 40 dogs still smoking and that the
tests will continue...
...I would say that the experiment is a crude one but effective in that
carcinoma in dogs has been produced....Modifications of the smoking
technique could be made that would more closely reproduce the human
exposure. But this is only a quibble. The crux of the situation is
whether there is general agreement by qualified pathologists that
carcinoma, squamous-cell carcinoma has indeed been produced. And even
if the cancer-production is invalidated, the obvious emphysema produced
cannot be denied.
Anne Landman
American Lung Association of Colorado, West Region Office
Grand Junction
From Dr. Frederic Grannis, Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the City of Hope
Hospital in Duarte, CA., July 31, 1999.
Anne:
Before you use this document as an example of TI [tobacco industry] mistreatment of
animals, you should know that the animals in question were the famous smoking beagles
in Dr. Oscar Auerbach's lab in New Jersey, not animals mistreated in a TI lab.
Auerbach who died last year, was one of my teachers in medical school
and a truly great man. He spent most of his adult life proving beyond any
shadow of doubt that tobacco smoke caused cancer. At each step he was villified
and tormented by TI "experts", and in the shadows that they manufactured,
recognition of the validity of Auerbach's discoveries was delayed for
decades.
Fred Grannis
Type of Document: Philip Morris Internal Memo
Title: Auerbach's Smoking Beagles
Date: February 25, 1970
Author: R. Fagan
To: Dr. H. Wakeham
Bates No. 1000837391/7392
Site: http://www.pmdocs.com/
URL:
http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?pgno=0&start=0&bool=1000837391&docid=1000837391/7392
