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WHAT THEY KNEW AND WHEN, in the words of the tobacco industry. A walk through the quoted record by decade of the state of knowledge and the industry responses. A litany of dirty tricks, denials, bullying, and the abdication of any vestige of ethical behavior. http://lnkd.in/dj9V_RB View in LinkedIn

WHEN WAS THE NEGATIVE DATA IN TOBACCO CLEAR? "Prior to World War I, lung cancer was considered to be a rare disease ... With the postwar rise in popularity of cigarette smoking, however, came an epidemic of lung cancer. In the 1930s German scientists showed that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer." http://lnkd.in/dRNWjzP View in LinkedIn

LUNG CANCER = TOBACCO. "Cigarette smoking is responsible for 85–90% of the lung cancer occurring in the United States ... the risks of smoking for lung cancer may be increasing. Changes in cigarette design and smoke composition over the past several decades have been suggested as a likely cause of this increase." http://lnkd.in/dFzWPWb View in LinkedIn

"CIGARETTE SMOKING became the dominant form in most of the developed world between the two world wars. The evidence was generally ignored until five case-control studies (on) the development of lung cancer were published in 1950 ... by the late 1950s, were beginning to show that smoking was associated with the development of many other diseases." http://lnkd.in/d3WgTvQ View in LinkedIn

WHO WARNING. "Unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could rise to more than eight million by 2030 (per year). Nearly 80% of the world's one billion smokers live in low-and middle-income countries." (Brackets mine). http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/ View in LinkedIn

WHO ON TOBACCO. "Tobacco kills up to half of its users. Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year. More than five million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600,000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke." http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/ View in LinkedIn

ADDICTION AMOUNG MENTAL PATIENTS. "It is estimated that nearly one-half of all cigarettes sold in the United States (44 percent) are consumed by people with mental illnesses or substance abuse disorders ... the prevalence of tobacco use among those with either addictions and/or mental illness" is 38-98 percent vs 19.8 percent for the general population." http://lnkd.in/dmhcut5 View in LinkedIn

ALMOST HALF SMOKERS ARE MENTALLY ILL. "Since 44.3 percent of cigarettes consumed in our country are smoked by people with mental illness, this issue truly does come into my office every day. I am often emotionally affected by it, and I do feel for the pain in my patient’s lives caused by smoking." (Dr Michael Rabinoff). http://lnkd.in/dVdWepq View in LinkedIn

ENDING THE TOBACCO HOLOCAUST, by Dr Michael Rabinoff. For an industry that only took off up between the world wars, the toll has been staggering. History will be harsh on this period of human development. http://lnkd.in/dr2qb2W View in LinkedIn

TWARTED YOUTH. "Of all the kids who become new smokers each year, almost one third will ultimately die of it. In addition, smokers lose more than a decade of life because of their smoking." http://lnkd.in/dV8_hNG View in LinkedIn