cigarettes as medicine When Cigarette Companies Used Doctors to Push Smoking It's astonishing today, but as
It's astonishing today, but as recently as the early 1960s, doctors commonly smoked and suggested their patients do the same. The perceived medicinal benefits of smoking tobacco were touted for centuries. Tobacco During the 1950s, selling commercial tobacco products inside medical facilities was a completely routine practice. Hospital staff regularly wheeled mobile carts directly into patient rooms, offering cartons of cigarettes right alongside everyday Depictions of smoking in pharmaceutical advertising The Cancer History Project Doctors Prescribed 'Healthy Cigarette Brands'? The Doctors' Choice Is America's Choice: The Physician in US Cigarette Advertisements, 19301953 PMC
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