Health Hazards of Cigarette Smoking: Current Popular Beliefs

Cartwright, Ann; Martin, F. M.

doi:10.1136/jech.14.4.160

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“…This had confirmed the impression given by earlier surveys carried out in Edinburgh to evaluate a campaign led by the MOH there in the 1950s: most of the population was aware of the association between smoking and lung cancer; only one person in the 1960 survey was not, an old lady of eighty-seven who was a nonsmoker. But both the Edinburgh and the pilot surveys had shown that a smaller proportion of the survey population accepted that the association was proved, and a negligible number had given up smoking because of it 67…”

Section: The Social Survey Social Research and The New Role Of The mentioning

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Medicine and the Public: The 1962 Report of the Royal College of Physicians and the New Public Health

Berridge¹

2007

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The 1962 report of the Royal College of Physicians on smoking was a significant event in the history of smoking. Its significance was, however, more than smoking-specific: the RCP committee's appointment, its membership, its work, and the manner of its publication signified the changes within social medicine, and within the medical profession more generally, in postwar Britain. Doctors assumed the right to speak to the public and to government on matters of individual health, and a new risk-based public health was in the process of formation. A public health “policy community” formed, and governments began to assume responsibility for advising the public on health matters. The use of research in the report, and of social research in response to it, was important in the emergence of evidence-based medicine within public health. The paper argues for greater attention to the change in public health epitomized by the report in current debates on the concept of the 1960s “permissive society.” It was the harbinger of a new style of “coercive permissiveness” in health.

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Section: The Social Survey Social Research and The New Role Of The mentioning

confidence: 99%