smoking

• Research published confirming link between smoking and lung cancer


  Mid 1950s
• Anti-smoking campaigns

  • Eg. Ash campaigns/No Smoking Day campaign
• traditional attitudes:

  • In the 1930s it was normal and fashionable, glamorized, and encouraged even by doctors. Film stars would smoke in their films.
• How have social attitudes changed?

  • Research published confirming link between smoking and lung cancer
 in the mid 1950s.