Selling Smoke: Tobacco Advertising and Anti-Smoking Campaigns
Item
Smoking and Health 1964 - Cover
Title
Smoking and Health 1964 - Cover
Description
After a multi-year study, the Surgeon General issued the landmark report Smoking and Health, which linked smoking to an increased risk of developing lung cancer. The report also found that cigarette smoking was responsible for a 70 percent increase in the mortality rate of smokers over non-smokers.
Subject
anti-smoking, government, surgeon general, report, medical, doctors, science
Creator
Advisory Committee to the United States Surgeon General
Source
Image from the William Van Duyn Tobacco Advertisement Collection (Ms Coll 20), Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. A finding aid describing the collection is available at http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/med.ms.0020
Publisher
US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Date
1964
Format
Book
Language
English
Type
Government report
