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     1        research base that is now even more comprehensive than was
     2        the case for the pioneering 1964 Surgeon General's Report
     3        on Smoking and Health."
     4
     5   Q.   Is there any other part of those documents, those four
     6        pages which I have copied, you wish to draw the court's
     7        attention to?
     8
     9   MR. RAMPTON:  I should wish to see the whole of this document.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I have not made any comment because if
    12        you are going to have time -- what is the position with
    13        regard to originals?  Is this something which is readily
    14        available or difficult to get hold of now?  I see it is
    15        six years ago.
    16
    17   THE WITNESS:  The book itself, my Lord?  I am afraid it is not
    18        as easy to get as one might hope.  It is available.  I
    19        would expect, I would be pretty confident that this and
    20        the NAS Report in 1989, which are really the key major
    21        American documents, would be available at government book
    22        shops in the States.  They are not available in HMSO.  If
    23        the court needed more copies they could be obtained.
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, again I observe that Mr. Cannon makes
    26        reference to a document of the NAS, which I take it to be
    27        the US National Academy of Sciences, in 1989.  The sheet
    28        I have here makes reference only to a document produced in
    29        1982.
    30
    31   THE WITNESS:  Yes, I agree, it is confusing.  There are a lot
    32        of them.
    33
    34   MR. RAMPTON:  I am not asking questions at the moment.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  What I would like to -- you expect to
    37        finish Mr. Cannon in-chief this afternoon?
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When Mr. Cannon is finished we will take a
    42        short break to give Mr. Rampton an opportunity to see what
    43        so far as documentation he needs before Mr. Cannon goes,
    44        because I might have to ask you then to come back into the
    45        witness box and tell us how it can be got, Mr. Cannon.
    46        A.  Certainly.
    47
    48   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, I anticipate this, my Lord, at the moment:
    49        There is a good deal of cross-examination I can usefully
    50        do this afternoon, but that absent of the whole of many of 
    51        these documents, we have been given what may or may not be 
    52        selective extracts -- I know not until I have seen the 
    53        whole document -- I cannot finish cross-examining
    54        Mr. Cannon today.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  All I am suggesting is that at some
    57        stage before Mr. Cannon leaves court -- I am afraid I am
    58        going to have to ask you to come back for some further
    59        cross-examination in the future for reasons which I know
    60        and could see you were listening to first thing this

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