Chapter 4 History of tobacco in chronological order

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History of tobacco in chronological order: 1900

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"12 Dogs Develop Lung Cancer in Group of 86 Taught to Smoke"

February 6, 1970, front page headline in the New York Times

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Phillip Morris CEO Joseph Cullman in an appearance on "Face the Nation" in 1971

when asked about "invasive lung tumors" in smoking beagles said that this was not

the same thing as cancer. When he was asked to comment about a study that found

smoking mothers gave birth to smaller babies, he said, "Some women would prefer

having smaller babies."

Ashes to Ashes, p. 358

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Partly at the urging of the tobacco companies, President Nixon in 1973 at the

beginning of his second term did not reappoint his anti-tobacco Surgeon General

Jesse Steinfeld. The post of Surgeon General went unfilled for four years.

Ashes to Ashes, p. 367 Arnold Palmer quit smoking in 1975, as did Jack Nicklaus

in 1982.

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In 1978, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph Califano labeled

cigarettes "Public Health Enemy No. 1" and said that their users were committing

"slow-motion suicide."

Ashes to Ashes, p. 436

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Two years earlier, Jimmy Carter had appointed a Philip Morris board member as the

head of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Dying for a Smoke, Pyramid Video, 1993

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