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3/27/2008

The disclosure of hidden tobacco company funding behind a major study suggesting that lung scans might help save smokers from cancer has shocked the research community and raised new concern about industry influence over science. Two medical journals that published studies by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers in 2006 are investigating tobacco cash and other financial ties that were not revealed. A foundation Cornell set up and listed in the New England Journal of Medicine as a sponsor of the study actually got $3.6 million from a parent company of cigarette maker Liggett Group Inc.