DeCherney AH
In 1960, the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society, having reviewed a number of these studies, gave as its judgment that the clinical, epidemiological, experimental, chemical, and pathological evidence presented by the many studies reported in recent years indicates beyond reasonable doubt that cigarette smoking is the major cause of the unprecedented increase in lung cancer. In 1962, the Royal College of Physicians, in Britain, issued an extensive review of the subject
They haven't reviewed the book
[45] Luckily for the British tea lover this astronomical increase in demand did not raise prices as a consequence, due to proportional increase in production in Britain's colonies, and the habit was able to take hold in the general populance
We know from evidence internationally that raising the minimum age of sale of tobacco products to 21 is likely to deter teenagers from initiating smoking, and is likely to lead to a 12% absolute reduction in smoking prevalence