sample="quota" bates="01148569" isource="ll" decade="1960" class="ni" date="19600514" HOTEL HASSLER ROMA May 14, 1960. Dear Dr. Parnele: Here we are after a smooth jet flight to London on a Boeing 707 and then on to Rome on a British Comet. Some 2000 surgeons are assembled here for the congress of the International College of Surgeons. The President is the great Pietro Valdoni who operated on Cardinal Stritch. While in London Dr. Hugh Clegg sent me an advance copy of the British Medical Journal for May 14 which contains an article on smoking and cancer. By the way, the concensus of this article is that the same thing that causes cancer acts to cause people to smoke -- namely the type of body they inherit. Anyway here is the article itself. I have started activity to get a pilot study made on the cigaret modified with pantotherm, and will write to you as soon as I hear anything definite. With my best wishes, Sincerely,