sample="supplemental" bates="1003639567" isource="pm" decade="1970" class="ne" date="19751028" THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE, INC 1776 K STREET, NORTHWEST WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006 202/296-8434 MARVIN A. KASTENBAUM, Ph.D. Director of Statistics October 28, 1975 Dr. G. H. Miller, Director Office of Institutional Research Edinboro State College Edinboro, Pennsylvania Dear Dr. Miller: I read with great interest the recent press reports concerning the Northwestern Pennsylvania Study of Smoking and Health. Would you be kind enough to send me a copy of the scientific publications that are reported to have been published in the Journal of Breathing of Illinois Lung Association? Frankly I have difficulty believing some of the statements attributed to you by the press. Did you really dismiss "as a 'bunch of nonsense' statistics that women usually outlive men"? Is the age distribution of living female smokers related to their average age at death? Do pipe and cigars smokers, as a group, tend to be older than nonsmokers? Would this not affect their average age of death? Answers to questions such as these do not appear in newspaper reports. That's why I look forward to reading the results as they were discussed by you in your scientific presentations and publications. Sincerely yours, Marvin A. Kastenbaum MAK:smb