Since 1878 Reports Confirmed Smoking Was a Health Hazard
September 25th, 2008
robbster wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
1878: Eighty-six years before the U.S. surgeon general issues a report confirming the dangers of smoking tobacco, a letter from English physician Charles R. Drysdale condemning its use appears in The Times of London.
Drysdale, the senior physician to the Metropolitan Free Hospital in London, had already published a book on this subject titled Tobacco and […]
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