Lessons from History
History is rich, and includes everything except
today and our tomorrows. Hopefully we learn as we go . . .
George Santayana, a Spanish American philosopher and writer, famously
said: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.
When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is
set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among
savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it."
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2011
Lost Public Opinion
American Public Opinion and the 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking
Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association's annual convention 2010
Abstract: Recent and present-day polling evidence may seem to suggest that the
federal government can do little to change attitudes on health-related issues.
However, an earlier, and by now largely forgotten episode suggests the contrary.
The 1964 Surgeon General's report on the dangers of smoking caused a short-term
increase in beliefs that cigarette smoking was a cause of lung cancer. The passage of
time did not reduce the growth in those beliefs, but rather magnified them. At least
under limited circumstances, the federal government can apparently change health-
related beliefs of the American public. . . "
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