Despite its stated mission: "To promote the art and science of medicine and improve public health, the American Medical Association (AMA) has taken a lot of mistakes in protecting the health of the American people. One of the most striking examples is the AMA long-term relationship with the tobacco industry.
How AMA and individual doctors of the big tobacco for decades after the harmful effects of smoking have been proven. Medical historians have tracked this relationship in great detail, examining internal documents of tobacco companies and their lawyers and consultants on public relations. The main theme of big tobacco efforts is to preserve the appearance on the "discussion" or "contradictions" in the health effects of smoking.
The first scientific study to a statistical correlation between cancer and smoking was published in 1930 in Cologne, Germany. In 1938, Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University reported that smokers do not live as long as no smoking. The tobacco industry dismissed these early findings as anecdotal - but at the same time, doctors called to endorse cigarettes.
JAMA kicked out of two decades of cigarette advertising
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published its first cigarette advertisement in 1933, saying that he did so only after careful consideration of the extent to which cigarettes were used by doctors in practice. "These advertisements continued for 20 years. In the same year he began Chesterfield ads in the New York State Journal of Medicine, with the assertion that the cigarettes were "Just as pure water as you drink ... and almost intact human hand. "
In medical journals and in popular media, one of the most infamous cigarette advertising slogans was associated with a camel brand: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette. This campaign started in 1946 and spent eight years in magazines and on the radio. Announcements included the following message:
"Family doctors, surgeons, diagnostic, nose and throat specialists, doctors, in every branch of medicine ... a total of 113,597 doctors ... the question was raised:" What kind of cigarettes do you smoke? "And they called as smoke Camel than any other cigarette! Three independent research groups found that it is a fact. You see, doctors too smoke for pleasure. Camel, full flavor that is equally appealing to the taste of a doctor to yours. .. that marvelous Camel mildness means the same in the throat, so that your ".
