Abstract
In Reply.— Dr Olsen's account is quite accurate, except that I was not a visitor at 535 N Dearborn, I had my office there, as director of the newly formed Commission on Chronic Illness. The rejection of the articles by both Levin et al and Wynder and Graham occurred. As it happened, my rejection slip was rerouted from my office in Albany, NY (from which I was on leave), and reached me at 535 N Dearborn. The anecdote regarding my role in persuading the editors to accept both articles has been told often and is referred to in a recent article in Epidemiologic Reviews by Dr Mervyn Susser. 1 An account of the history of the early days of the smoking controversy, beginning with the skepticism it first received from most of the profession, needs writing. It is of interest that the Wynder and Graham article was at first given
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