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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: maceng2 who wrote (189067)6/11/2006 4:03:58 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
So I am "quite right" -g- It's only now the theory that smoking causes cancer is generally accepted by the scientific community (and the tobacco companies). Back in 1910 there were probably a few renagade trouble maker students who thought Einstien was quite the new scientist, but it was hardly the accepted stuff taught in university or accepted by the public at large. "Time dilation? that won't make the steam engines run faster, heh heh".

Anti-smoking efforts were well underway in the 1800's. Any moron who looked a the autopsied lungs of a lifetime smoker could draw the relevant conclusions on the health effects of smoking. Cancer specific links came later, but there are many more health issues for smokers than that. To argue that the tobacco companies came around to the correct view based on the evidence finally being sufficiently good to convince reasonable people is laughable.
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