ETX 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Passive Smoking, World Health Organization, Lung Cancer
27 Nov 2017
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Tobacco: mortality from tobacco, rise in use of tobacco, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, other pulmonary disease, mechanized cigarette rolling machines; less tedious, madison avenue advertising campaigns. Inclusion of tobacco in military rations c: us military subsidized its use, until relatively recently, from 1859-1950s, studies showed smoking causes lung cancer, but no concrete evidence. 1964 - president kennedy commissioned a committee to address tobacco b: abbreviated history of regulation, tobacco industry response. Experimental subjects were animals, not people i. i. ii: during his two terms as president (cid:840)1981-1988(cid:841), ronald reagan declined to take any action, april 1994 - big tobacco ceos told congress under oath that tobacco is not addictive. 6: lung cancer rates for men were much higher for women against tobacco. Increasing lung cancer due to air pollution, but tobacco is worse: found that men smoked much more cigarettes per day than women i. Increased deaths in smokers a: heavy advertising budget b.
