Volume 1
The tobacco industry and the health risks of smoking : second report / Health Committee.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
- Date:
- 2000
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: The tobacco industry and the health risks of smoking : second report / Health Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(d) Do you agree that smoking causes heart and circulation disease beyond all reasonable doubt? “(Notwithstanding certain complexities] in populations, yes” Gallaher “It is generally accepted that smoking is neither a necessary ... nor a sufficient ... cause of disease and that causal conclusions in this regard are a matter of judgement ... As such, it would as yet be going too far to say that causation has been proved beyond all reasonable doubt” esl i “We do not agree that smoking causes [these] ... diseases beyond all reasonable doubt” RJ Reynolds “No - nobody knows what causes these diseases beyond all reasonable doubt” Philip Morris “There is an overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers ... smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non- smokers” (e) Does smoking cause respiratory illnesses such as emphysema - “cause” meaning that smoking is an activity that results in there being more respiratory illness deaths than there would otherwise be - other things being equal? Gallaher “the statistical evidence shows smoking to be a risk factor for respiratory diseases ... it is clearly likely that, as a result of smoking there are more respiratory illness- related deaths than there would otherwise be ...” (f) Do you agree that smoking causes respiratory illnesses beyond all reasonable doubt? Gallaher “It is generally accepted that smoking is neither a necessary ... nor a sufficient ... cause of disease and that causal conclusions in this regard are a matter of judgement. ... As such, it would as yet be going too far to say that causation has been proved beyond all reasonable doubt” aoe “We do not agree that smoking causes [these] ... diseases beyond all reasonable doubt” lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers ... smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non- smokers”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32221083_0001_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
