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Smoking and Climate Change: Comparing Policies
Suspicions about the ill effects of cigarette consumption on health were expressed as early as in the mid-nineteenth century. Physicians in that era wrote to their leading medical journal, The Lancet, voicing their concerns and the urgency they felt to warn the public about the risks of smoking. In 1857, Samuel Solly wrote a lengthy letter beginning with these words:
The more I think about the tobacco question the more it haunts me. … Every day the subject is forced upon my mind. I scarcely meet a friend or patient who does not bear his testimony to the mischief of which he has been the witness, in his own case of that of some friend, from tobacco. (Solly 1859, 175)
Anecdotal testimony of this sort, however, does ...
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