Smoking and death
Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: Smoking and deathPublic health measures were taken more than 40 years ago EDrroR,-Richard Peto discusses the failure of public health with regard to smoking over the past 40 years,' but his account could have extended back further.He considers that the Medical Research Council was, in 1957, "the first national institution in the world to accept formally the evidence that tobacco is a major cause of death."The formal recognition of this fact, however, was explicitly made by many important national insti- tutions in Nazi Germany.The Public Health Office and the German Medical Association, both under the leadership of Dr Gerhard Wagner, repeatedly issued precise pronouncements regarding the dire health consequences of smoking.
Source: BMJ
Institutions: University of Bern, Universität Hamburg, University of Bristol
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1592235645