The British Cabinet discussed the early warnings about a link between smoking and lung cancer more than 50 years ago, but viewed the threat as minor and did little for fear of losing tax revenue, according to documents released Friday.
The grim portrait is drawn from previously secret reports of an April 19, 1956, Cabinet meeting. The handwritten notes, taken by Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook, were released by the National Archives.
The meeting was held two years after scientists first published research linking smoking to lung cancer, and one year before the British Medical Research Council found "a direct causal connection" between smoking …
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