Just ban cigarettes already. Please.

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116. Your "credible" study is from 1956, which means its no longer credible

So, yes, I chose to ignore it. The fact that you are staking your argument on it is simply ridiculous. There has been extensive research since Charles Cameron was head of the American Cancer Society and you know it. Not only is there no evidence that the article in question wasn't really written in 1956 (as you apparently claim), the fact is that whatever Dr. Cameron may have written or thought in 1956, he had a different view just a few years later. In one of the first cases brought by a smoker against a tobacco company, Pritchard v. Liggett & Myers, Dr. Cameron was one of five medical experts that testified "categorically" that there was a causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer.

Finally, just to put to rest your bald assertion that Cameron's 1956 article isn't really from 1956, please take note of the fact that Cameron was head of the ACS back in the late 40s (there is an award that ACS gives out each year that he created in 1949 -- google him and you'll see), left the ACS in 1966 to go to Hahnemann Medical College, retired in 1972, and died at age 90 in 1998.


NEWS
Dr. Charles Cameron, A Force At Hahnemann
October 29, 1998 | By Andy Wallace, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Charles S. Cameron, 90, a doctor who was a major force behind the growth of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital and a prominent figure in cancer-prevention education, died of respiratory failure Saturday at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr retirement center. During the 16 years he was at Hahnemann (now Allegheny University Hospital) as dean, president, and chairman of the board of trustees, Dr. Cameron added a full-time clinical faculty, developed the graduate school, vastly increased research activities, and prepared a 25-year building program that continued long after he retired in 1972.