The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 29 The tobacco Industry

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The tobacco Industry: General

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"No clinical or biological evidence has been produced which demonstrates how

cigarettes relate to cancer or any other disease in human beings."

Statement from American Tobacco Co. at its 1967 annual meeting (Ashes to

Ashes, p. 325)

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"...today's scare tactics surrounding cigarettes. Because no one has been able to

produce conclusive proof that cigarette smoking causes cancer. Scientific, biological,

clinical, or any other kind. It's more than cigarettes being challenged here. It's

freedom."

1970 (The Cigarette Papers, p. 186)

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"A widespread anti-tobacco industry is out to harass sixty million Americans who

smoke and to prohibit the manufacture and use of tobacco products....Outrageous

and medically unsubstantiated assertions made by well-financed and highly organized

groups opposed to smoking are disputed by many men and women of science."

Statement from William Dwyer,

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1985 BAT (British American Tobacco) argument about the health effects of smoking:

"There is a lot of evidence which links smoking statistically with certain

diseases...Statistics alone cannot prove cause and effect...Research is needed to

clarify the situation."

The Cigarette Papers, p. 341

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