Title continues: "a presentation of an ad hoc committee of The Canadian Tobacco Industry to The Conference on Smoking and Health of the Department of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa, November 25 and 26, 1963".  Examines the "scientific weaknesses of the case against smoking." Topics include: lung cancer incidence; epidemiological factors in lung cancer; laboratory experimentation; clinical and pathological observations; cardiovascular diseases; future Canadian research; etc. Bibliography.