Smoking and death

1995/02/11 by George Davey Smith, S A Strobele, Matthias Egger · 30 citations
Medicine · Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · #Smoking Behavior and Cessation #Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology #Obesity and Health Practices #Medicine

paper · open access · doi:10.1136/bmj.310.6976.396

published in BMJ 310(6976), 396.1

openalex publication_date 1995/02/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/08

Abstract

Smoking and deathPublic health measures were taken more than 40 years ago EDrroR,-Richard Peto discusses the failure of public health with regard to smoking over the past 40 years,' but his account could have extended back further.He considers that the Medical Research Council was, in 1957, "the first national institution in the world to accept formally the evidence that tobacco is a major cause of death."The formal recognition of this fact, however, was explicitly made by many important national insti- tutions in Nazi Germany.The Public Health Office and the German Medical Association, both under the leadership of Dr Gerhard Wagner, repeatedly issued precise pronouncements regarding the dire health consequences of smoking.

Citations

• A birth cohort analysis of the smoking epidemic in West Germany.
• Smoking and health promotion in Nazi Germany.

Cited by

• Smoking and health promotion in Nazi Germany.
• The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933–45
• Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany [wikipedia]