Higher augmentation index (AIx), a marker of wave reflections, has been found to be associated with smoking in several studies 14,24,25,26,27
Here we have, in 1963, Elston Howard selling cigarettes on national television. In one tobacco advertisement shown to me by Robert Jackler, a physician and expert on tobacco marketing, the now-defunct Tobacco Institute ran a remember the man, remember the dream ad aligning itself with Martin Luther King Jr
Research by one of us (ES) in the early-1990s found numerous cross-connections among the members of the Surgeon Generals advisory committee for the 1964 report, the AMAs Education and Research Fund to administer grants from the tobacco industry, and the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (renamed the Council for Tobacco Research in 1964)
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