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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."
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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?
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9 MR. RAMPTON: I should wish to see the whole of this document.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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31 THE WITNESS: Yes, I agree, it is confusing. There are a lot
32 of them.
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34 MR. RAMPTON: I am not asking questions at the moment.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. What I would like to -- you expect to
37 finish Mr. Cannon in-chief this afternoon?
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39 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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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.
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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.
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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
