Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientist in the Department of Nutrition of the Harvard School of Public Health has challenged the statements of the U.S. Public Health Service, the American Heart Association and others who claim cigarette smoking is causally linked to deaths from coronary heart disease...
...Advisory Committee indicated in its 1964 report to the Surgeon General that it "was unable to reach a firm conclusion as to the role smoking plays in causing or precipitating a death from this (coronary heart) disease...
Seltzer noted that almost immediately after the Surgeon General's 1964 report the statements of the public Health Service, the American Heart Association, and other medical groups used such phrases as "caused by" and "associated with cigarette smoking" in describing the relation between cigarette smoking...
...phrases clearly imply," Seltzer said, "that the consequence of smoking cigarettes is a variable amount of excess premature coronary heart disease deaths. But no such implications can be drawn from the conclusions of the Surgeon General's Committee...
Seltzer added that a close study of the evidence in new reports does not make it any clearer that there is a causal connection between cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease...