From the Folks Who Brought You Camels and Lucky Strikes: "Consensus"

Spend some time with old issues of Time Magazine or Look circa 1950 and you'll find ad after ad touting the doctors who smoke Camels or Lucky Strikes (""). The PR agencies surveyed the doctors, sometimes counting hundreds of thousands of them, then advised readers that such and such brand was "not irritating on the throat," was "soothing," and other euphemisms for scientific approval of what turned out to be a deadly product.

Most doctors smok...