Year: 2022

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

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

"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

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

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

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

NUMBER ONE JOB OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY. "We have one essential job -- which can be simply said: stop public panic ... There is only one problem -- confidence, and how to establish it, public assurance and how to create it." http://lnkd.in/dj9V_RB View in LinkedIn

SOW DOUBT FIRST. "The most important story is that which casts doubt in the cause and effect theory of disease and smoking ... Controversy! Contradiction! Other factors! Unknowns!" http://lnkd.in/dj9V_RB View in LinkedIn

END OF AN ERA IN US. "Now virtually all tobacco advertising is to be banned. Magazine pages will be devoid of unexplained pieces of slashed purple silk, billboards in busy streets are to shed their images of vast open stretches of Americana." http://lnkd.in/dEaC5iq View in LinkedIn

BIOBASH Barcelona, Tuesday 2nd December, Alma Hotel at Mallorca and Pau Claris, cash bar. Come and enjoy with fellow entrepreneurs. View in LinkedIn