As the years passed, some of these doctors died; Doll and Bradford Hill investigated the cause of death in each ease. Some of the deaths were from lung cancer and two facts emerged quite clearly. First, there was a very clear relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Second, the chances of dying from the disease increased with: increasing cigarette consumption. Since then a mass of evidence confirming these results has poured in from all over the world. There have been Attempts to finds other explanations of the connection between lung cancer and smoking but none fits the facts as well as the simple explanation that there is something in the cigarette which is it a cause of lung cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
