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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Two recent studies, published in 1988 and 1989, have indicated a connection between exposure to dioxin and development of cancers in humans. Earlier studies had shown little evidence linking human cancers to dioxins, but these earlier studies have now been challenged by U.S. government officials as fraudulent. More than 200,000 people aged 20 to 74 lived in towns near the accident. Nearly 31,000 people aged 20 to 74 lived in zones contaminated to some degree by the accident and about 200 individuals had such high exposures that they developed chloracne, an acne condition known to be caused by exposure to dioxins.