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How did the tobacco industry handle the questions about the link to lung cancer?
The Tobacco Industry Fights Back
After the breakthrough studies on the hazards of cigarette smoking by Doll and Hill and Hammond and Horn were published in medical literature and announced in the media in the early 1950s, tobacco companies joined forces in solidarity to fight the impact that such reports would have on their customers (Proctor, 2012). Tobacco corporations publically denied the research findings and established The Tobacco Industry Research Commission to fund “unbiased” research to continue to promote the safety of their product via strategic public relations campaigns to cast doubt into any future anti-tobacco research (Glantz, Barnes, Bero, Hanauer, & Slade, 1995; Proctor, 2012). “Safer” cigarettes were developed with lower tar and nicotine and promoted successfully to the public as tobacco use rates among men and women doubled by the 1960s.
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When Cigarette Companies Used Doctors to Push Smoking
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A FRANK STATEMENT TO CIGARETTE SMOKERS (fr 1950’s)
The parallels to our current situation are stark!
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