Where there's smoke

摘要

It was the report that showed, without a whiff of doubt, that cigarettes kill. On January nth 1964-a Saturday, so to not roilthe stockmarket-Surgeon-General Luther Terry released a 387-page document entitled "Smoking and Health". Ten scientists (all men; half smokers) analysed 7,000 studies to assess the effects of tobacco on the human body. Its conclusions were incendiary. "Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer in men," it said.