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Re: Humans Raise Risk of Europe Heatwaves:
I really hate to disagree with Stewart Farber. However, this is an absurd
statement that cannot be supported: "I have no
doubt that the tobacco industry back in the late 1950s to early 1960s
[before the Surgeon General issued his first detailed report in 1964 [?]
about the hazards of cigaretee smoking], could have gotten 17,000
physicians and "scientists" to sign a petition that cigarette smoking had
no adverse effects on health if it had bothered to try."
In 1961, when I was in the 8th grade I gave a report on smoking to all the
7th and 8th graders in my school. There was no doubt at that time that
there was a strong relationship between cigarete smoking and poor health.
I had no difficulty gathering substantial anti-smoking information at the
time. That is hardly surprising since tobacco use had been known to be bad
for health for decades. During the American War of the Northern Agression
(circa 1864 for any Ivy League college graduates), the Surgeon General of
the Confederate States of America compiled an extensive list of the bad
health effects of tobacco use. In the early 1900's cigarettes were
commonly known as "coffin nails". Early in World War II the German
National Socialists (NAZI) had established a comphrehensive campaign
against tobacco use because of its known health effects. In the 1950's Sir
Doll of the UK established a causal relationship between tobacco use and
poor health. By then cigarettes were commonly referred to as "cancer
sticks" as well as "coffin nails".
Don Kosloff
Perry OH
farbersa
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12/02/2004 03:51 PM
Please respond to
farbersa
Hi Howard:
While 17,000 individuals may have signed the petition noted at the link
you cite claiming little if any affect from global warming concerns, it is
hardly accurate to say that these 17,000 scientists had "studied the
problem". The link does provide a paper by several scientist reviewing
information that they gathered from various selected sources. I have no
doubt that the tobacco industry back in the late 1950s to early 1960s
[before the Surgeon General issued his first detailed report in 1964 [?]
about the hazards of cigaretee smoking], could have gotten 17,000
physicians and "scientists" to sign a petition that cigarette smoking had
no adverse effects on health if it had bothered to try. [clip]
Stewart Farber
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