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Ernst L. Wynder, MD
President, American Health Foundation New York

JAMA. 1986;255(8):1017.

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To the Editor.—

When JAMA published our paper as a LANDMARK ARTICLE in the May 24/31 issue,¹ it reminded me how thrilled and gratified Dr Graham and I were when our report was presented as the lead article in the May 27, 1950, issue. Such recognition no doubt helped the data to receive initial widespread attention.

We needed all the help we could get, for the initial attention was followed by a general apathy toward the implications of the findings. This was particularly true in the medical community despite massive additional evidence, notably from Doll and Hill in England and Hammond and Horn in the United States. In 1962, the Royal College of Physicians published a full review of the evidence linking smoking with disease and in particular with cancer of the lung. It was not until the Surgeon General's report of 1964 that large-scale public support began to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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