Records. Commercial Analysts Company-Committee of Interns and Residents (inclusive), 1963-1976.

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Records. Commercial Analysts Company-Committee of Interns and Residents (inclusive), 1963-1976.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Commercial Analysts Company, a market research firm which did a survey on the efficacy of drugs, 1963-1969; Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, a group promoting the legalization of laetrile and other unproven methods of treating cancer, 1974-1976; Committee for Research on Tobacco and Health, an AMA committee (records concern the promotion of "Venture" as a "safe" cigarette on the grounds that insecticides were not used in cultivation of the tobacco in the cigarettes), 1966; and Committee of Interns and Residents, a labor organization of hospital interns and residents, 1970-1972.

4 folders.

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