Terry to thank for beginning the process. Since 1964, there have many Surgeon General reports published, and many focused on your health in relation to smoking, but none have gotten as much publicity as Terry’s. It was actually later ranked one of the top news stories in 1964. This publicity was crucial because a Gallup Survey conducted in 1958 found that only forty-four percent of Americans believed smoking caused cancer and other diseases, but after Terry’s report was published this jumped to seventy-eight percent. This statistic alone proves that the report had a huge success in beginning to inform Americans on the actual health risks of smoking that the tobacco companies had not been telling
Terry to thank for beginning the process. Since 1964, there have many Surgeon General reports published, and many focused on your health in relation to smoking, but none have gotten as much publicity as Terry’s. It was actually later ranked one of the top news stories in 1964. This publicity was crucial because a Gallup Survey conducted in 1958 found that only forty-four percent of Americans believed smoking caused cancer and other diseases, but after Terry’s report was published this jumped to seventy-eight percent. This statistic alone proves that the report had a huge success in beginning to inform Americans on the actual health risks of smoking that the tobacco companies had not been telling