[43] Beginning in December 1952, the magazine Reader's Digest published "Cancer by the Carton", a series of articles that linked smoking with lung cancer
The warning letter was sent days after the FDA received a letter from anti-tobacco organizations urging the governmental agency to enforce regulations against false marketing claims
It is not said, be it remembered, that the drug can produce in a healthy person the disease from which the patient is suffering: it is only advanced by homopathists that the drug given has the power of producing in a person in health, symptoms similar to those of the disease under which the patient is languishing, and that the correct mode of treatment is to counteract the disease symptoms by the artificial production of similar symptoms by medicinal means, or in other words, to suit the medicine to the disorder, by a previously acquired knowledge of the effects of the drug, by experiment on a healthy person
Reduced inflammation Quitting smoking can also reduce inflammation in the liver, which can help to prevent further damage and promote the healing of existing liver damage