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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. STAR D.218,>62 - 5. 342,005 N06r'25 1954 ' . ~'i~°a~°ette :~'i~~ Wins Suit On C'ance~-'Death , Miami, Pla. (AP)-A Pe3- 107, was expectedto have a exhaustiLe study of thecourre eral court jurg in a landmark strong effect on other pending record: ' decision in the cigarettes: or planned litigation. But Hastings predicted that cancer controversy, has found Green's wife, May, and bis an eventual verdict that cig= that cigarettes "are reasonably son, Edwin Jr., hml contended arette smoking does cnnse safe and whnlesome for bu- tbat Green's slung cancer"'is inevitable." man cansumptioi" caused by smoking three pachs ' Thedecision, den derm of tuoky Strike c^arettes a "THE RIGHT decision will' yr^g day for 30 years.I ihey, had be forthcoming;' he.said, "be- ages to the estate of Edwin M. sued the American Cobacco eauw the healdi of the world Green of Miami, a heavy smok- Company fvT'yTa00D. is at stxke. Some day, tlre er who died of lung cancer in THIg IS ' tohaceo manufacturers will be _ " welcome news;'. £ o r c e d to make a safe clg- . ..._ ..._..,.~_ . 'said W. g Hedrlck,tobacco aretfe."_ - mark¢Hng spec(zlist for the' Hastings said such a de- Department Department of Agriculture of c will he difficult to get . Nonh 'Cerolina;one of the rs~ter the "verdic4- Mrs. Wrge tobacco producing states. Green said, "9 just can't be- It wxs, he said, "a good sign Eeve it. The jurors decided for tobacco in the face of the there wasnY enough evidence. surgeon general's report" on What will parents tell their the harmFul effeds of c^-, teen-agers?" -.zrette smoking. ^(teally, it is a sharire;' she . Dr. Lawrence V. Hastings of added. "It has been a terrible ' Miami, a physician and lawyer strain. Now maybe I can re- ' -. ' representing the Greer.s- with- lax. They won't be bringing i'. . Iheld a dc sron on wheth r to all back, his death, all thc appeal ul 1 il t•. ari timc"

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