['“February', '20,', '1969', 'Mr.', 'Billy', 'Patrick', 'Box', '51', 'Calvert,', 'Alabama', '36513', 'Dear', 'Mr.', 'Patrick:', 'Thank', 'you', 'for', 'thinking', 'of', 'us', 'in', 'connection', 'with', 'your', 'project,', 'Despite', 'the', 'publicity', 'being', 'generated', 'by', 'the', 'anti-tobacco', 'forces,', 'the', 'hypothesis', 'that', 'cigarette', 'smoking', 'is', 'responsible', 'for', 'human', 'disease', 'has', 'not', 'been', 'proven,', 'At', 'the', 'fifteenth', 'annual', 'meeting', 'of', 'The', 'Council', 'for', 'Tobacco', 'Research--U,5.A.', 'in', 'January,', '1969,', 'Dr,', 'Clarence', 'Cook', 'Little,', 'Scientific', 'Director', 'of', 'the', 'Council,', 'said:', '“There', 'is', 'no', 'demonstrated', 'causal', 'relationship', 'between', 'enoking', 'and', 'any', 'disease.', 'The', 'gaps', 'in', 'knowledge', 'are', 'eo', 'great', 'that', 'those', 'who', 'dogmatically', 'assert', 'otherwise--whether', 'they', 'state', 'that', 'there', 'is', 'or', 'is', 'not', 'euch', 'a', 'causal', 'relationship--are', 'premature', 'in', 'judgement.', 'If', 'anything,', 'the', 'pure', 'biological', 'evidence', 'is', 'pointing', 'away', 'from,', 'not', 'toward,', 'the', 'causal', 'hypothesis."', 'The', 'report', 'of', 'the', 'American', 'Medical', "Association's", 'Committee', 'for', 'Research', 'on', 'Tobacco', 'and', 'Health,', 'at', 'the', "AMA's", '1968', 'annual', 'meeting,', 'makes', 'it', 'clear', 'that', 'research', 'so', 'far', 'has', 'not', 'established', 'a', 'causative', 'link', 'between', 'cigarettes', 'and', 'lung', 'cancer,', 'heart', 'ailments,', 'or', 'other', 'human', 'diseases.', 'Long', 'before', 'the', 'advent', 'of', 'the', 'current', 'anti-smoking', 'campaigns', 'our', 'industry', 'established', 'The', 'Council', 'for', 'Tobacco', 'Research--U.§.A,', 'to', 'support', 'independent', 'scientific', 'research', 'in', 'a', 'sincere', 'attempt', 'to', 'determine', 'what', 'ad-', 'verse', 'effects,', 'if', 'any,', 'smoking', 'has', 'upon', 'human', 'health.', 'Also,', 'in', 'more', 'recent', 'years,', 'funds', 'have', 'been', 'appropriated', 'by', 'our', 'industry', 'for', 'tobacco', 'and', 'health', 'research', 'grants', 'being', 'administered', 'by', 'the', 'American', 'Medical', 'Association.', 'To', 'date,', 'over', '$30', 'million', 'has', 'been', 'contributed', 'by', 'our', 'industry', 'to', 'support', 'independent', 'research', 'related', 'to', 'smoking', 'and', 'health.', '|', 'The', 'AMA', 'committee,', 'mentioned', 'above,', 'reported', 'at', 'the', "Association's", 'meeting', 'in', 'San', 'Francisco', 'that:', '"The', 'problems', 'related', 'to', 'establishing', 'any', 'kind', 'of', 'cause', 'and', 'effect', 'relationship', 'between', 'tobacco', 'use', 'and', 'health', 'ara', 'far', 'more', 'complex', 'than', 'had', 'been', 'supposed.', 'Many', 'years', 'may', 'be', 'required', 'to', 'gather', 'sufficient', 'experimental', 'facts', 'and', 'data', 'to', 'clear', 'what', 'fe', 'at', 'best', 'a', 'muddied', 'picture,', 'It', 'fs', 'evident', 'that', 'we', 'have', 'a', 'long', 'road', 'to', 'travel', 'and', 'that', 'this', 'will', 'be', 'done', 'slowly."', 'ceES', 'BSOOS', ' ']