| In the 1950's accumulating scientific
evidence linking cigarette smoking and lung cancer made a{{U}} (51)
{{/U}}impact{{U}} (52) {{/U}}the smoking public. During this period
many health agencies declared smoking to be a{{U}} (53) {{/U}}Hazard. US
Surgeon General Leroy E. Brunei said in 1957: "The weigh of the evidence is
increasingly pointing to one direction: that{{U}} (54) {{/U}}smoking is
one of the causative factors in lung cancer." The initial reports had the
heaviest impact, so{{U}} (55) {{/U}}total cigarette production dropped
in 1953 and again in 1954.{{U}} (56) {{/U}}reports appeared to have
less{{U}} (57) {{/U}}on smoking habits, and by 1957 cigarette production
had{{U}} (58) {{/U}}above the 1952 level. {{U}} (59) {{/U}}four voluntary health organizations urgued president John F. Kennedy to{{U}} (60) {{/U}}a commission to study the widespread implications of the tobacco problem, the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health was{{U}} (61) {{/U}}in 1962 to review and evaluate all{{U}} (62) {{/U}}scientific data. When its report, Smoking and Health, was released in early 1964, cigarette consumption again declined{{U}} (63) {{/U}}. Pipe and cigar smoking increased. More than 350, 000 copies of the report were contributed and sold.{{U}} (64) {{/U}}abstracts and pamphlets were prepared by the Public Health Service and other organizations{{U}} (65) {{/U}}a massive educational campaign on the hazards of cigarette smoking. |