Your a hoot!
Nowadays take a Statin??
Why?
Because Doctors have no time to learn they are to busy working. Statin use should be discontinued as a CRP test is needed before even thinking about a statin. How many doctors give CRP test? 1% maybe 2%!!!
However the medical profession has sold out to everyone that will provide them with a free meal.
Why do you think this group of immmature people with no life experience can guide anyone?
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"The Doctors’ Choice Is America’s Choice": The Physician in US Cigarette Advertisements, 1930–1953
Martha N. Gardner, PhD and Allan M. Brandt, PhD
Martha N. Gardner is with the Department of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, Mass. Allan M. Brandt is with the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the History of Science Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Martha N. Gardner, PhD, Department of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 179 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: martha.gardner@bos.mcphs.edu).
In the 1930s and 1940s, smoking became the norm for both men and women in the United States, and a majority of physicians smoked. At the same time, there was rising public anxiety about the health risks of cigarette smoking. One strategic response of tobacco companies was to devise advertising referring directly to physicians. As ad campaigns featuring physicians developed through the early 1950s, tobacco executives used the doctor image to assure the consumer that their respective brands were safe.
These advertisements also suggested that the individual physicians’ clinical judgment should continue to be the arbiter of the harms of cigarette smoking even as systematic health evidence accumulated. However, by 1954, industry strategists deemed physician images in advertisements no longer credible in the face of growing public concern about the health evidence implicating cigarettes.
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