The "Report on Smoking and Health" published by the Royal
College of Physicians in England in 1965 warned of a connection
between lung -cancer and smoking. The findings were widely
publicized, and were accepted by practically every-one-indeed, they
persist today. As Hans J. Eysenck shows in his classic study
"Smoking, Health, and Personality," the results were by no means
immune to challenge. Not only were the experimental and statistical
methods employed vulnerable to criticism, but the results were open
to more than one interpretation.
In this new edition, Stuart Brody reviews Eysenck's achievement.
Eysenck critically reviewed the literature, presented longitudinal
studies showing that psychological characteristics are far more
potent predictors of heart disease and cancer than smoking
behavior, and demonstrated that psychological treatment can halve
death rates. Eysenck also spoke the unspeakable, iconoclastically
attacking the cherished attribution of millions of deaths to
smoking. He examined the interaction of smoking with personality
and constitutional factors, and the connection between these
factors and the development of cancer. Eysenck saw the
cause-and-effect relation between cancer and smoking as
oversimplification. He also makes a number of practical suggestions
for the kind of social action that could be taken to decrease the
incidence of lung cancer. For his part, Brody notes that massive
campaigns which exhort people to eschew tobacco or cholesterol have
had little or no demonstrable health benefits.
This original and stimulating volume is written with great
clarity and is easily understood by the layman. It is an incisive
account of one of the most important social problems in this
country today, and a challenge to orthodoxy in the medical world.
As such, this volume offers much for both sides of the anti-smoking
lobby, as well as those in the fields of psychology, political
science, and sociology. .
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