Smoking causes cancer!

Smoking causes cancer!

“Direct link found between smoking and lung cancer,” ran the headline in the most influential real estate in all American journalism: page one, above the fold, in the New York Times. But the story wasn’t Sir Richard Doll’s 1952 study showing that smokers are vastly more likely than nonsmokers to develop lung cancer. And it wasn’t the US Surgeon General’s 1964 report declaring that cigarettes ca...

Smoking causes cancer!

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Smoking and mortality--beyond established causes.

BACKGROUND Mortality among current smokers is 2 to 3 times as high as that among persons who never smoked. Most of this excess mortality is believed to be explained by 21 common diseases that have been formally established as caused by cigarette smoking and are included in official estimates of smoking-attributable mortality in the United States. However, if smoking causes additional diseases, ...

Lung cancer and smoking.

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Smoking and cancer.