This is true even up to the 70s. I remember being a kid and my old ENT doctor (I had lots of ear problems) used to smoke in the office while he was talking to us. The fluorescent lights were vaguely yellow, as I recall. He died of cancer before I graduated from high school.
Reminds me of what’s happening with e-cigs (vapes). They started by saying it was healthier and better for your lungs than actual cigs, turns out a study has shown that to be very, very wrong. Ooops!
Truth be told, a lot of doctors even in the 50s believed that smoking was at best not beneficial, and at worse a serious issue. We had the research to say so, but a series of very low quality of evidence studies of doctors who were essentially bought managed to convince the widespread public that the common medical opinion was that smoking was possibly beneficial. The issue is that tobacco companies had a lot of money to throw around since they had revenue, and anyone who knew smoking was bad lacked the resources to tell anyone until major news or government sources caught on.
gary over 6 years ago
Remember seeing a reprint of a WWI advertisement showing a General telling a private that it was healthier to smoke a cigarette than eat a sweet.
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 6 years ago
“Not a cough in a carload.” Old Camels billboard.
Teto85 Premium Member over 6 years ago
King George VI
Bill The Nuke over 6 years ago
Anyone remember which cigarettes Fred Flintstone used to advertise?
InquireWithin over 6 years ago
This is true even up to the 70s. I remember being a kid and my old ENT doctor (I had lots of ear problems) used to smoke in the office while he was talking to us. The fluorescent lights were vaguely yellow, as I recall. He died of cancer before I graduated from high school.
ksu71 over 6 years ago
Old Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6j-8ort7E
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 6 years ago
Reminds me of what’s happening with e-cigs (vapes). They started by saying it was healthier and better for your lungs than actual cigs, turns out a study has shown that to be very, very wrong. Ooops!
Reaven over 6 years ago
Truth be told, a lot of doctors even in the 50s believed that smoking was at best not beneficial, and at worse a serious issue. We had the research to say so, but a series of very low quality of evidence studies of doctors who were essentially bought managed to convince the widespread public that the common medical opinion was that smoking was possibly beneficial. The issue is that tobacco companies had a lot of money to throw around since they had revenue, and anyone who knew smoking was bad lacked the resources to tell anyone until major news or government sources caught on.
Bill The Nuke over 6 years ago
As a school kid in the early 60s we were shown movies of lungs filled with nicotine and cancerous.
Daniel Jacobson over 6 years ago
I think, it was Marlborough, that was pushed as “The thinking man’s cigarette with the smoking man’s taste.”