HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nicotine, White Trash
7 Dec 2018
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Pressure to remove smoking from films and tv. From the mid-1980s, rates of smoking dropped off significantly (even by 2/3) Health consequences were known since the 1950s, even earlier: 1930s: nazi germany (powerful laws to combat smoking, 1953: reader"s digest, cancer by the carton , 1963: surgeon"s general report. Adding of asbestos filters to remove the dangerous stuff : creation of light cigarettes, colour-coding (red or baby blue assume blue is. Oreskes and conway: merchants of doubt : pr firms hired to promote the debate , argue for balance in coverage. Compare equal weight to both sides vs. accurate weight to both sides . Built on earlier class action lawsuits and cases, wherein states successfully sued industry to recover costs of medicaid and ban some marketing practices: in canada, billion settlement. Cunningham: the alliance between citizens, doctors, and political strategists.
