Daily Doc: TI, Jan 10, 1979: Stop the war on disease
Daily Doc: Stop the war on disease
Title: Smoking and Health 1964-1979: The Continuing Controversy2046738051/8216
TI, Jan 10, 1979
Bates #: BATES
March 22, 2000
This 165-page confidential Tobacco Institute report, Smoking and Health 1964-1979: The Continuing Controversy, is a denial-fest that refutes the causation of virtually every disease that we now accept as smoking induced. Some samples:
On pregnancy outcomes:
Although the... 1978 HEW report to Congress concludes that cigarette smoking is "probably causally associated with increased perinatal mortality"....The data suggest that such factors as...hospital pay status (public vs. private) have greater effects on pregnancy outcomes than maternal smoking.On the sharply increasing rate of lung cancer:
What some have called the "epidemic" in lung cancer mortality in this century has been linked by some to the increased popularity of smoking. However, it has been speculated that this reported increase may in fact have been created largely by improvements in diagnostic techniques -- in other words, more lung cancer cases have been reported because physicians were better equipped to find them.
....You get the idea. A shell game. All the usual tobacco industry denial, in concentrated form.
But of all the rhetoric in this paper, the very the first sentence of the preface stood out as the most shocking...
CITATION
Title: Smoking and Health 1964-1979: The Continuing Controversy
Type of Document: Confidential report
Author: Kornegay, HR - President of the Tobacco Institute
Date: 19790110
Site: Philip Morris document site http://www.pmdocs.com/cgi-bin/rsasearch.exe
Bates No. 2046738051/8216
Page Count: 165
URL of first page: http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?pgno=0&start=0&bool=controversy%20and%20health%20and%20confidential&docid=2046738051/8216&docnum=3
URL of whole document (long doc - takes a long time to load): http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=2046738051/8216
Found using search criteria: controversy and health and confidential
QUOTES
The American people would be better served if high government health officials and private interest groups which encourage them abandoned the myth of "waging war" against diseases and their alleged causes.[...and this one, also from the preface, was a close runner-up:]
One does not become an advocate of tobacco by supporting a broader, deeper, more objective consideration of the issue.
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