Cigarettes, school children, and lung cancer

“Tobacco Truths”: Health Magazine, Clinical Epidemiology, and the Cigarette Connection

“…This was especially disturbing, he wrote, in light of the fact that "so much of it is directed to the recruitment of school children." 82 Bates also expressed interest in restricting cigarette advertising, with characteristic vitriol. In 1968 he blasted tobacco companies for their "silly and extravagant lies" and argued that "cigarette manufacturers become rich by encouraging the daily use of poison ... to the end that [the smoker] be destroyed."…”