Tobacco linked with cancer in 1939

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In the 1660 there was a lot of articles in the London Papers about the health problems accosiated with Tobacco
The 1700's medicl Journals, talk alot about Snuff and Chewing Tobacco as cases of Dental and Sinus problems.
The 1800's added in Links between Emphysema and Tuberculosis With Tobacco, as well as questions about long term nicotine poisoning.
The 1900's focused on Tobacco and Cancer.
The 2000's anti smokers with their government granted Monopoly on Radio and TV advertising seem to be focused on Demonizing the Tobacco Industry.
 
Incidentally, I had a lecture about this earlier today; my prof is an expert on addiction and was one of the people vetted by tobacco companies to prove that nicotine wasn't the cause of cigarette addiction a few decades ago.

He mentioned how since tobacco was linked to cancer, the numbers of smokers in the US have dropped by half. However, that's just the US alone, and that's over several decades, so the correlation does not necessarily imply causation. In other countries, smoking rates are just as high as ever, and they assuredly know that smoking leads to cancer.

That said, I assume that smoking rates are more of a societal thing, and a revelation of the side effects might drop smoking rates slightly, but not a great deal.
 
Not to be a pain in the ass but since this is a historical site, did you mean medicine journals, or did the Medici family publish journals with articles about the health problems of tobacco?

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A campaign against tobacco would have been a hard sell before OTL.

Prior to antibiotics, people died sooner, so the life-shortening effects of lung cancer would have been less obvious. Cigarettes were even advertised as an alternative to eating snacks, so they prevented weight gain. Prior to insecticides, people who lived in smoky environments were subject to fewer insect-borne diseases, too. And to cap it off, smoky, smoggy air was very common in most cities. Remember the US EPA and OSHA did not exist until 1970.
 
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