What year did people find out that smoking was dangerous?

Answer 1

The first evidence of the link between smoking and cancer was collected around the mid 1940s. In 1954, a study was release stating "that those people who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day were 25 times more likely to get lung cancer than nonsmokers and, in addition, that smokers were twice as likely to have a heart attack as nonsmokers."Believe it or not the Nazis for all their evil, were staunchly anti-smoking and that was in the 1930s.

Answer 2

There was always a body of evidence that smoking was not good for you, dating back to the 17th Century. However, during the Second World War the cigarette companies made concerted efforts to cause soldiers to become addicted to cigarettes by putting free packets in ration packs, and insuring that they were sold for practically nothing in military stores. When that generation of addicts began to age, the harmful effects of smoking became obvious.

Answer 3

The first evidence of the link between smoking and cancer was collected around the mid 1940s. In 1954, a study was release stating "that those people who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day were 25 times more likely to get lung cancer than nonsmokers and, in addition, that smokers were twice as likely to have a heart attack as nonsmokers."

Answer 4

Not that many people smoked during the 1900s. Ready made cigarettes were for the rich and most of the poor chewed their tobacco. Starting around the beginning of WWI

ie 1914 governments started handing out free cigarettes to their soldiers in the trenches to keep them alert. The soldiers

became addicted to smoking and when they returned to the homefront the demand for ready mades increased tremendously. Also women started to smoke in the 1920s.

In the 1930s doctors noticed a huge increase in the number of people with lung cancer At that time lung cancer was a

very very rare disease and lots of doctors had never seen it.

At that time the medical profession deducted that the increase in smoking had brought on the increase in lung cancers. However by this time cigarette making was a multi million dollar industry and they paid to shut everyone up. This

continued until the 1960s when people really began to question how healthy tobacco was. The cigarette industry

still denied it and it wasn't until the late 1970s and early

1980s that most people accepted that use of tobacco is a cancer causing agent.

Answer 5

When they started dying from it, but time they realized it, it was to late

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Answer 6

When people noticed the deaths that was related to cigaretts, and they ended up dying early.