PART FOUR
 
PREVENTION IS
THE CURE

It should first be noted, however, that the 1960s and 1970s did not witness so much a difficult birth of approaches to prevention that focused on environmental and lifestyle causes of cancer, as a difficult reinvention of an older tradition of interest in these possible causes.

—David Cantor

The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.

—Chicago Tribune, 1975

The same correlation could be drawn to the intake of milk. . . . No kind of interviewing [can] get satisfactory results from patients. . . . Since nothing had been proved there exists no reason why experimental work should be conducted along this line.

—U.S. surgeon general
Leonard Scheele on the link
between smoking and cancer