Reading the history of science and policy around cigarettes & smoking. In 1957, the UK Medical Research Council planned to publish a bombshell report by Doll & Hill linking cigarettes *and* air pollution to lung cancer.
UK politicians were concerned about the political risks of naming air pollution a public health risk, so they asked the MRC to re-consider. Scientists were allowed to name smoking as a cause in their final report but ultimately downplayed air pollution.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829889/
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