Robert Lustig, MD: Personal Responsibility Was Popularized In the 1960s
6 May 2024 · 1 min

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Robert Lustig (in a lecture/video) discusses the historical rise of the idea of "personal responsibility" in mid-20th-century America, linking it to scientific publications about tobacco. He attributes the first equations of smoking with lung cancer to the Dahl (text: 'Richard Dahl') paper around 1950 and to Austin Bradford Hill (Bradford Hill) around 1960, and points to a visible spike in Washington Post and New York Times coverage of tobacco dangers after those papers.
Questions this video answers
Richard Dahl (Dahl paper) and Austin Bradford Hill (Bradford Hill paper).
Dahl paper: around 1950; Bradford Hill paper: around 1960.










