吸煙有害健康（一）
Before Dr. Luther L. Terry, then the Surgeon General of the United States, issued his office's first "Report on Smoking and Health" more than 30 years ago, thousands of articles had already been written on the effects of tobacco use on the human body.
Tobacco companies had countered the reports――which purported to show links between smoking and cancer and other serious diseases――with denials and competing studies.
So in 1964, Terry and his Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health knew they were stepping into a major pit of controversy when they announced "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action".
It was America's first widely publicized acknowledgment that smoking cigarettes is a cause of serious diseases.
But the issue wasn't settled in 1964, nor is it settled in 1997, despite literally thousands more studies――and litigation that has forced at least one tobacco company to admit what some activists say they knew all along: cigarette smoke is hazardous to your health.
More than 30 years――and more than 20 Surgeon General reports――later, the issue appears headed for settlement in the courtroom rather than the laboratory.
30多年前，在當(dāng)時(shí)美國(guó)的衛(wèi)生局局長(zhǎng)路德?L?特里博士發(fā)表他上任以來的第一份“有關(guān)吸煙與健康的報(bào)告”之前，已經(jīng)有成千上萬篇關(guān)于吸煙對(duì)人體健康影響的文章發(fā)表了。
煙草公司對(duì)這些旨在表明吸煙和癌癥以及其他疾病之間有關(guān)系的報(bào)告采取抵制的態(tài)度――予以否認(rèn)，并提出分庭抗禮的研究報(bào)告。
所以，在1964年，特里和他的吸煙與健康咨詢委員會(huì)就明白了，在他們宣布“吸煙危害健康，在美國(guó)應(yīng)引起人們足夠的重視，有必要采取適當(dāng)?shù)难a(bǔ)救措施”時(shí)，他們就踏人了一個(gè)爭(zhēng)論的大坑中了。
那是美國(guó)第一次廣泛宣傳，承認(rèn)吸煙會(huì)導(dǎo)致嚴(yán)重的疾病。
但是這個(gè)問題在1964年沒有得到解決，在1997年還是沒有解決，盡管確實(shí)又進(jìn)行了數(shù)千項(xiàng)研究――且提起的訴訟已迫使至少一家煙草公司承認(rèn)一些禁煙活動(dòng)積極分子的說法，其實(shí)也是他們一直都明白的：吸煙對(duì)人體有危害。
30多年以來，有20多位衛(wèi)生局局長(zhǎng)提出報(bào)告，此后，這個(gè)問題似乎是走向法庭解決，而不是在實(shí)驗(yàn)室解決。
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