National Archives Reveals British Cabinet’s First Discussion On Lung Cancer And Smoking

zGreat wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
The UK National Archives have just released notes of cabinet meetings that took place over 50 years ago, from 1955 to 1956, among which are minutes of a meeting where the British prime minister and cabinet colleagues first reviewed emerging evidence of a statistical link between smoking and lung cancer and made the decision to wait and see rather than mount a public campaign.

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