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(3 pages) Article by Roy Norr Christian Herald October 1952 (Source: Googlebooks) In 1975, more than a decade after the publication of the US Surgeon Generals Report on the devastating health consequences of cigarette smoking, George Gitlitz, MD, a vascular surgeon and past president of the Broome County, New York Medical Society, wrote the first of over a dozen letters to the editor and the publisher of The New York Times challenging them to discuss on the newspapers editorial page their reasons for continuing to accept cigarette advertising and to acknowledge the irony of repeated editorial accusations of financial self-interest by doctors while profiting from the promotion of the major preventable cause of disease and avoidable medical costs

But he wasnt overly fussy

Despite consumer awareness of the negative health impacts of tobacco smoking, the tobacco market is expanding because the product is so addicting

The mood-altering effects of nicotine (pleasure, alertness, relaxation) are powerful and when a person begins to smoke, particularly at a young age, the risk of developing nicotine addiction is high