Can you provide a link for the CDC statement that "smoking would not cause cancer"?
Me neither. I think that you are conflating 'TV doctors' stating their preference for Camels, as well as tobacco industry propaganda, with your skepticism of the CDC.
Me, I'll take science and its self-correcting testing of hypotheses that result in the discarding of what is unsupported by evidence and further experimentation, over beliefs, religious and philosophical, that have no such mechanism for discarding error.
No later than Jan of '64 this was released....
Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Health
https://readyo2.com/tobacco-use-and-public-he...sequences/
And it still took 30 more years before the tobacco companies were successfully sued for their misleading of the American public.
https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/31899/uncate...f-smoking/
When was tobacco first considered to be dangerous to health?
In 1602 an anonymous English author published an essay titled Worke of Chimney Sweepers (sic) which stated that illnesses often seen in chimney sweepers were caused by soot and that tobacco may have similar effects. This was one of the earliest known instances of smoking being linked to ill health.
In 1795 Sammuel Thomas von Soemmering of Maine (Germany) reported that he was becoming more aware of cancers of the lip in pipe smokers
In 1798 the US physician Benjamin Rush wrote on the medical dangers of tobacco
During the 1920s the first medical reports linking smoking to lung cancer began to appear. Many newspaper editors refused to report these findings as they did not want to offend tobacco companies who advertised heavily in the media
A series of major medical reports in the 1950s and 1960s confirmed that tobacco caused a range of serious diseases.
I say it is highly unlikely that the CDC was either unaware of or opposed to the science in those medical reports, much less guilty of a statement contradicting the reports.
When were cigarettes developed?
Cigarette making machines were developed in the latter half of the 1800s. The first such machines produced about 200 cigarettes per minute (today’s machines produce about 9,000 per minute). Cheap mass production and the use of cigarette advertising allowed tobacco companies to expand their markets during this period.
What caused the growth and later decline of smoking in traditional markets?
The prevalence of cigarette smoking continued to grow in the early 20th Century mainly as a result of:
The development of new forms of tobacco promotion
The ability of the tobacco industry through its power and wealth to influence the policies of political parties.
Smoking increased dramatically during the world wars, mainly due to the policy of providing free cigarettes to allied troops as a ‘morale boosting’ exercise.
Later in the twentieth century, smoking became less popular due to a rapid increase in knowledge of the health effects of both active and passive smoking.
People also became aware of the tobacco industry’s efforts to mislead the public about the health effects of smoking and to manipulate public policy for the short-term interests of the industry.
The first successful lawsuits against tobacco companies over smoking-related illness happened in the latter part of the 20th Century.
Me neither. I think that you are conflating 'TV doctors' stating their preference for Camels, as well as tobacco industry propaganda, with your skepticism of the CDC.
Me, I'll take science and its self-correcting testing of hypotheses that result in the discarding of what is unsupported by evidence and further experimentation, over beliefs, religious and philosophical, that have no such mechanism for discarding error.
No later than Jan of '64 this was released....
Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Health
https://readyo2.com/tobacco-use-and-public-he...sequences/
And it still took 30 more years before the tobacco companies were successfully sued for their misleading of the American public.
https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/31899/uncate...f-smoking/
When was tobacco first considered to be dangerous to health?
In 1602 an anonymous English author published an essay titled Worke of Chimney Sweepers (sic) which stated that illnesses often seen in chimney sweepers were caused by soot and that tobacco may have similar effects. This was one of the earliest known instances of smoking being linked to ill health.
In 1795 Sammuel Thomas von Soemmering of Maine (Germany) reported that he was becoming more aware of cancers of the lip in pipe smokers
In 1798 the US physician Benjamin Rush wrote on the medical dangers of tobacco
During the 1920s the first medical reports linking smoking to lung cancer began to appear. Many newspaper editors refused to report these findings as they did not want to offend tobacco companies who advertised heavily in the media
A series of major medical reports in the 1950s and 1960s confirmed that tobacco caused a range of serious diseases.
I say it is highly unlikely that the CDC was either unaware of or opposed to the science in those medical reports, much less guilty of a statement contradicting the reports.
When were cigarettes developed?
Cigarette making machines were developed in the latter half of the 1800s. The first such machines produced about 200 cigarettes per minute (today’s machines produce about 9,000 per minute). Cheap mass production and the use of cigarette advertising allowed tobacco companies to expand their markets during this period.
What caused the growth and later decline of smoking in traditional markets?
The prevalence of cigarette smoking continued to grow in the early 20th Century mainly as a result of:
The development of new forms of tobacco promotion
The ability of the tobacco industry through its power and wealth to influence the policies of political parties.
Smoking increased dramatically during the world wars, mainly due to the policy of providing free cigarettes to allied troops as a ‘morale boosting’ exercise.
Later in the twentieth century, smoking became less popular due to a rapid increase in knowledge of the health effects of both active and passive smoking.
People also became aware of the tobacco industry’s efforts to mislead the public about the health effects of smoking and to manipulate public policy for the short-term interests of the industry.
The first successful lawsuits against tobacco companies over smoking-related illness happened in the latter part of the 20th Century.
