The men who tried to warn us about smoking
When doctors said cigarette smokers were dying prematurely the UK government did little.
Witness History · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
British doctors produced an alarming report in 1962 warning that 1 in 3 smokers would die before the age of 65. The doctors suggested restrictions on advertising and on smoking in public places but the UK government did little except launch a health education campaign.
Credit: Interviews with Sir George Godber and Charles Fletcher courtesy of the Medical Sciences Video Archive, part of a project run by Oxford Brookes University and the Royal College of Physicians.
Photo: 1956 (Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images)