Tobacco companies promoted ideas of stress and type A personality?

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Interesting article about how tobacco companies played a major role in the promotion of the modern idea of stress and type A personality so they could deflect suspicions that smoking caused problems:

The Secret History Behind The Science Of Stress

by Alix Spiegel | July 07, 2014 4:07 PM ET

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/07/325946892/the-secret-history-behind-the-science-of-stress

 

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