Never, ever, ever has a Doctor EVER been wrong about anything.

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Never, ever, ever has a Doctor EVER been wrong about anything. In the 1930s and 1940s “Doctors hadn’t yet discovered a clear link between smoking and lung cancer, and a majority of them actually smoked cigarettes.” Did that mean we should never trust the medical community again? In fact the American people understood the lack of knowledge and gave grace to the medical community. JUST LOOKING FOR CONSISTENCY TODAY.

It took several decades for doctors to finally come out against cigarettes. Cigarettes finally ended their ad campaign about the “controversy”, on if cigarettes were unhealthy in 1998! Over 60 years!

The medical community was forgiven. Should people be allowed to have an open discussion, question and conduct studies on the new vaccine? Shouldn’t we actually encourage doctors to continue to investigate the new covid 19 vaccine? I can only imagine the disgust and harassment the first few doctors and individuals who spoke out against cigarettes faced. If those few brave individuals did not stand up, would we know what we know now about smoking?

The final paragraph talks about vaping. Are we allowed to investigate that? In 2019 six deaths were reported with vaping-related lung illness.

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What cigarette do doctors says causes less throat irritation? In the 1930s and 40s, tobacco companies would happily tell you it was theirs. Doctors hadn’t yet discovered a clear link between smoking and lung cancer, and a majority of them actually smoked cigarettes.

“People started to get worried in the ‘40s because lung cancer was spiking; the lung cancer death rate was going through the roof,” says Martha Gardner, a history and social sciences professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Yes, cigarettes did cause coughing and throat irritation. But companies used this to their advantage to promote their product as better than the competition. It wasn’t all cigarettes that gave you problems—it was just those other ones.

The first cigarette company to use physicians in their ads was American Tobacco, maker of Lucky Strikes. In 1930, it published an ad claiming “20,679 Physicians say ‘LUCKIES are less irritating’” to the throat.

Unsurprisingly, many doctors responded positively to this biased, leading question, and Lucky Strike ads used their answers to imply their cigarettes must be medically better for your throat. In 1937, the Philip Morris company took that one step forward with a Saturday Evening Post ad claiming doctors had conducted a study showing “when smokers changed to Philip Morris, every case of irritation cleared completely and definitely improved.” What it didn’t mention was that Philip Morris had sponsored those doctors.

Philip Morris continued to advertise “studies” it sponsored through the 1940s

In 1946, Reynolds launched an ad campaign with the slogan, “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.” They’d solicited this “finding” by giving doctors a free carton of Camel cigarettes, and then asking what brand they smoked.

By the mid-1950s, when tobacco companies had to confront good evidence that their products caused lung cancer, advertising strategies started to shift. “What happens is, all the different cigarette companies kind of work together to try to promote the idea that…we don’t know yet if it’s harmful,”

Doctors were coming out against cigarettes, culminating in 1964 with the U.S. Surgeon General’s report that smoking causes lung cancer, laryngeal cancer and chronic bronchitis.

Still, tobacco companies continued to maintain, through their research committee, that there was still a “controversy” over whether cigarettes were unhealthy until 1998.

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