Word: cardiovascular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directive was crudely explicit: it is increasingly evident, it said, that smoking is linked to cancer and pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. There is hardly any doubt that the Surgeon General has jurisdiction to issue such an order; clearly, it could not forbid smoking itself or the buying of cigarettes, but just as clearly, it is free to control the handouts that it feels might disturb the health of the Air Force...
Said FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to promote these worthless safflower oil capsules for the treatment of obesity, cardiovascular diseases and other serious conditions. One of its main purposes was to promote the sale of a commercial product in which Dr. Taller had a financial interest." To this, Simon & Schuster retorted: "There is nothing in the record which could possibly support these vicious and irresponsible innuendoes...
...delighted with the write-up of Ancel Keys and his work. He has been a very important pioneer in what we call cardiovascular epidemiological research, really the spark that has helped to set innumerable people working on this important subject...
...half again the number of illnesses that the college graduates did. Though few of these involved risk of death, the risk run by the high school men was ten times that of the college men. Above all, many more of the high school men showed telltale signs of future cardiovascular disease...