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He encouraged readers to eat whole grains and avoid too much sugar.

And in 1928, he warned readers against using tobacco and linked cigarette smoking to cancer.

The Surgeon General issued its first report on smoking 36 years later, in 1964.

Harvey Wiley died in 1930.

His tombstone reads, Father of the Pure Food Law.

What do you think is Wiley and the Poison Squad's legacy?

But you know, thanks to Wiley, we don't have to worry about drinking a glass of milk nowadays.

We should.

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