The electroshock was the revelation of the tobacco industry’s villainies and was associated with a strong consumer pressure on the western governments, at least to ban tobacco from advertisements, schools and public housing. In the 1950s, the average ages for the first cigarette smoked and for lung cancer onset were 20–30 yrs and ≥60 yrs, respectively, but at the turn of the 20th century these were <12 yrs and ≥40 yrs, respectively. ![]() The age of lung cancer occurrence followed the age that people started smoking. Since susceptibility of females to tobacco carcinogens is higher, lung cancer in females equalled or exceeded lung cancer in males in different countries 4, even in females with a lower, but regular, cigarette consumption. In all western countries the percentage of smokers increased, and the age at which the first cigarette was smoked decreased. In spite of well-known toxicity of tobacco smoke 2 and the proven relationship of tobacco smoking with lung cancer incidence 3, the tobacco industry took advantage of the lack of response by western governments, concerning the alarms raised by physicians and citizen associations, and set up a very powerful marketing process directed at smokers, adult males and nonsmokers, females and adolescents with devastating effects. ![]() Lung cancer epidemics arose and spread in western countries when the tobacco industry created the manufactured cigarette and realised that nicotine addiction was the most adaptable way to increase and secure long-term sales 1.
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