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Re: who would have thunk??

>>>[Former US President, and Union Civil War General] Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885 at age sixty-three after a long and painful public battle with throat cancer which was widely assumed at the time to be the result of his lifelong cigar habit,


Well of course. This is what US Grant's own doctors had to say about the issue 120 years ago:

Lander included the then recent case of General later President Ulysses Grant (1822-1885). He had died that year, in his early 60's, so young, due to tobacco-caused cancer. His Dr. Douglas stated, "Smoking was the exciting cause of this cancer . . ." His Dr. Shrady said, "It is quite probable that the irritation of smoking was the actual cause of the cancer; or at least it is fair to presume that he would not have had the disease if his [smoking] had not been carried to excess," Lander, supra,

This idea that the tobacco companies somehow managed to conceal the risks of smoking from the public, is pure unadulterated bull. That's a myth supported by the plaintiffs bar, not by reams of historical data proving the exact opposite.

If nobody knew smoking was harmful, then why did the States of Iowa and Tennessee ban the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in 1897?

This website has some good documentation of older historical links to cancer. For example:


Tobacco-caused cancer was already known in 1882. It is repeatedly cited as already known, in the book by Meta Lander, The Tobacco Problem, 6th ed. (Boston: Lee and Shepard Pub, 1885). Lander wrote "Surgeon-General-style," i.e., quoting what others had already previously said. Examples include the following: "Professor Bouisson, of France: 'Tobacco . . . is the most common cause of cancer in the mouth.'" (Data on "cancer of the buccal cavity" was found "[in] 1859"



Indeed, as early as in 1761, Dr. John Hill, a London physician, had recorded an early observation linking tobacco (specifically, snuff) and cancer. In his analysis, “Cautions Against the Immoderate Use of Snuff,” he said “snuff is able to produce . . . swellings and excrescences” in the nose.


"I think that in almost every case [of lung cancer] I have seen and known of, the patient has been a regular smoker, generally of cigarettes," said Dr. Frank E. Tylecote, The Lancet (30 July 1927).