Cigarettes were referred to as “coffin nails” as early as 1906. That’s what George Will writes at the Washington Post. Will adds that the U.S. Surgeon General didn’t designate smoking as a possible instigator of lung cancer until 1964.
It turns out Americans didn’t need blinding glimpses of the obvious from Surgeon Generals, or blanket government settlements with tobacco companies, to come to their own conclusions about cigarettes. On matters of health and wellbeing, government is less necessary and much later than a potted plant.
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