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Purple: Statistics of Smoking
Green: What was known and not known about smoking in the 1950-60s
Yellow: What we know now compared to what we knew in the 1950-60s.

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Known health risks of smoking during the 1950s
Lung cancer was such a rare thing that when someone did get it the doctors took notice. When people started smoking in the 50s, lung cancer became very common and the doctors connected it.

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Smoking was Cool, Cheap, Legal and Sociably Acceptible during the 1950-60s

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Smoking was Cool, Cheap, Legal and Sociably Acceptible during the 1950-60s

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During the book, The Outsiders, we here Two-Bit say "Anyone want a weed?" right after he lit a cigarette. This is mind-boggling to kids like us today, because we aren't use to smoking being a regular and socially acceptable thing, but this quotation shows that it's not only legal and sociably acceptable, they were also "cool." Cigarettes costed about 25-40 cents per pack, which is equal to about 2.57-4.11$ today. Which would be relatively cheap and accessible.

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Known health risks of smoking during the 1950s
During the 1950s, most people knew about some very bad health risks. Some of the most concerning risks that people knew about were lung cancer, asthma, resperitory infections, and decreased pulmonary function. When people started getting lung cancer during the 40s and 50s, they tied it to smoking.

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Back "in the day," around the early 1950s they didn't know of the harmful effects of smoking weed. In 1957 they found that smoking anything could cause lung cancer, but this didn't stop smoking from being "cool" or legal, it just made smoking "living on the edge," it didn't become a true worry, until around the late 20th century and the early 21st century, when they discovered that smoking turned your lungs  black, and it was now proven with the better technology that we had, that cigarettes became expensive and it was now seen as not sociably acceptable.

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What was not known about the serious health risks during that era?

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What was not known about the serious health risks during that era?

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They did not know then that smoking was the major reason of lung cancer until 1957. Then the organization known as the PHS Scienctist created labels on cigarette packs and educational programs to stop students from smoking.

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By 1965, more than 29.4% of adults smoked at least once in their life.

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By 1950, lung cancer prelavence increased by 67%. Smoking accounts for more than 87% of the people who died of lung cancer.

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As we know, Two-Bit offers his gang members cigars. Pony boy, a child, accepts his offer and smokes one and so does Sodapop, only a few years older. A cigar is usually offered during times of tension perhaps as a stress reliever. So many people smoked, and that meant the air was always contaminated with the fumes.

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By 1950, men at the age of 20 began smoking, and the smoking intensity increased to be up to 25 cigars per day.