In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans…[T]he study…had been financed in part by a little-known charity called the Foundation for Lung Cancer…[T]he foundation was underwritten almost entirely by…grants from [Vector Group], the parent company of the Liggett Group, maker of [a number of]…cigarette brands…[A] Vector spokesman…[said] the company…“had no control or influence over the research”…[A] former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine…said…“You have to ask yourself the question, ‘Why did the tobacco company want to support her research?’…They want to show that lung cancer is not so bad as everybody thinks because screening can save people…”