My Lady Nicotine
EVERYONE, I take it, has heard of the man who was s0 terrified by what he read in the papers about the evil effects of smoking that he decided to give up reading. After the indefatigable Nesta Pain’s documentary on Smoking, he would also undoubtedly give up listening to the radio. This BBC feature gave the expression "coffin-nail" a new meaning. Miss Pain and her collaborator
fio a had taken care to present both sides of the case as fairly as possible. The Tobacco Manufacturer’s scientific representative, Sir Ronald Fisher, was able to point to weaknesses in the statistical case for a relationship between cigarettesmoking and lung-cancer, and one or two other speakers saw similar weaknesses in the evidence. But the weight of: testimony was against the cigarette-smoke. The summing-up of Lord Adrian, secure
in his pipe-smoking immunity, put the matter, I feel, beyond doubt. This programme did a better job than any printed discussion I have seen; by putting the issues so justly, and by offering such a crowd of witnesses. But the most interesting revelation was that, despite the Medical Research Council report and the widespread discussion of it, cigarette sales have been affected not one iota.
Holy smoke, indeed!
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 25
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