Virginia Berridge
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199260300
- eISBN:
- 9780191717376
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199260300.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter traces the history of what Sir Peter Froggatt, Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health, writing in the 1980s, called the strategy of ‘systematic gradualism’.. ...
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This chapter traces the history of what Sir Peter Froggatt, Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health, writing in the 1980s, called the strategy of ‘systematic gradualism’.. This became the major public health and industry area of interest from the 1950s through to the 1970s. By this term, Sir Peter was referring to scientifically informed strategies aimed at reducing the risk and harm drawing on relationships with industry. Topics discussed in this chapter include the Medical Research Council's tobacco benefaction-funded research programme, the Tobacco Manufacturers Standing Committee and research, the work of the Harrogate laboratories, and research carried forwards within the Imperial Group.Less
This chapter traces the history of what Sir Peter Froggatt, Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health, writing in the 1980s, called the strategy of ‘systematic gradualism’.. This became the major public health and industry area of interest from the 1950s through to the 1970s. By this term, Sir Peter was referring to scientifically informed strategies aimed at reducing the risk and harm drawing on relationships with industry. Topics discussed in this chapter include the Medical Research Council's tobacco benefaction-funded research programme, the Tobacco Manufacturers Standing Committee and research, the work of the Harrogate laboratories, and research carried forwards within the Imperial Group.
