If this is a real health issue of incredible import, where is the wave? Big Cigarette was gutted in the 90s and I can't watch TV without every third commercial being a health related lawsuit ad. Anti-vax has nearly two decades on the books...so what is the excuse for the overall stagnation?
nearly 2 decades, eh? Doubts about cigarettes were expressed in the 1900s.
So cigarette doubts = 100 years
Vax doubts - 20 years
so what is the excuse for the overall stagnation?
Cherchez le BIG MONEY
A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers was a historic advertisement run by major American tobacco companies on January 4, 1954 in response to a study showing that cigarette tar caused cancerous tumors on mouse skin.[1] The advertisement ran in more than 400 newspapers throughout the U.S. aimed at an estimated 43 million people. It was the first in a campaign to dispute reports that smoking cigarettes could cause lung cancer and had other dangerous health effects.[1]
The public relations firm Hill & Knowlton created the advertisement after a meeting in New York late in 1953 between them and Paul Hahn (head of American Tobacco) and other tobacco executives. The tobacco industry followed it with other advertisements expressing doubt about scientific research linking disease and smoking.[2]
Reports of a link between tobacco and lung cancer had emerged as early as 1912, although until the 1950s, the evidence was circumstantial. In the early 1950s, Richard Doll released the results of the British Doctors Study which showed a 20-fold increase in lung cancer susceptibility in smokers. In 1953, an animal study by Ernst Wynder found that tobacco tar was carcinogenic when applied to the skin of mice.[3] The increased evidence that tobacco causes cancer was covered in the Reader's Digest article, Cancer by the carton.[2][4] This article provoked a health scare, resulting in a small drop in consumption, and a fall in stock prices. In this context, some tobacco industry executives, led by Paul Hahn, head of American Tobacco, met with Hill & Knowlton, who created A Frank Statement.[2]
The advertisement claimed:
1.That medical research of recent years indicates many possible causes of lung cancer.
2.That there is no agreement among the authorities regarding what the cause is.
3.That there is no proof that cigarette smoking is one of the causes.
4.That statistics purporting to link cigarette smoking with the disease could apply with equal force to any one of many other aspects of modern life. Indeed the validity of the statistics themselves is questioned by numerous scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Frank_StatementSound much like what the pro-vaxxers are saying?
And like the cigarette co's -
just deny, deny, deny, ad nauseum.
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Strazdamonas
7 years ago
Just to clear things up the first research paper to ever claim that cigarettes could be harmful was done in the 40s, so not 100 years, more like 70.
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