S. Cardon

S. Cardon was a chemist with the Rand Development Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1957 hHe stated to a Congressional committee that the Rand Corp. had found a known cancer producing agent in the smoke from cigarette paper, and a lesser amount from tobacco alone, and in the composite smoke of cigarette paper and tobacco. The compound was 3,4 benzpyrene and it typified a group of related compoands demonstrated by Wynder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute and others as being strongly carcinogenic. Rand found that additives releasing amisonia at the approximate-combustion temperatures of cigarettes can reduce or eliminate entirely, these compounds from cigarettes smoke.

No first name is available for Mr. Cardon.

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