Anger Over Tobacco Study
The disclosure of hidden tobacco money behind a big study suggesting that lung scans might help save smokers from cancer has shocked the research community and raised fresh concern about industry influence in important science.
Two medical journals that published studies by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers in 2006 are looking into tobacco cash and other financial ties that weren’t revealed. The studies reported benefits from lung scans, which the Cornell team has long touted.
It’s a crucial public health issue: Dozens of groups, including such anti-smoking crusaders as the American Cancer Society, have given the Cornell team money to see if routinely screening smokers with CT scans can spot the world’s most lethal cancer in time to prevent deaths.
Tags: American Cancer Society, lung, lung cancer, research, tobacco, tobacco-funded study, Weill Cornell Medical College
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hey! don’t smoke, and you won’t have a problem! spare me…
if you are old enough to know the ramifications of cigarettes, you are old enough to know that you just might DIE from it! i am sick of all you crusaders out there. people will smoke and continue to smoke knowing that it may will kill them. yes, it is an addiction. but, it is also one that can be broken. they just don’t have the willpower to do it. i used to smoke when i was a teenager, into my early 20s. i managed to quit. so can they. and i would never of dreamt of trying to sue a tobacco company because someone in my family got sick from it and died. if someone wants to smoke, who are you to tell them not to? if someone drinks (which is just as bad, if not worse, because drunks have been known to kill other people) who are you to tell them to stop? if it causes issues for them, too bad!! it is up to them to stop. you are not my big brother or sister, so please top cramming this crap down our throats. i would much rather that the money go for something like a cure for cancer, heart diseases, and the like.
the fact that ligget money was used to fund the study does nor make it invalid.What is the reseearchers past history of credibility in other studies? Dis the reasercher personally profit from the ligget money? How does a cigarette company benefit from lung cancer early exposure study?? get serious and start saving LIFES