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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:30-31
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

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Commentary: Lung cancer and tobacco consumption

Sir Richard Doll

University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Medicine, CTSU, Harkness Building, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK.

The issue of Zeitschuft für Krebsforschung in which Schairer and Schöniger's1 paper appeared did not reach Britain during the war (although most other issues did) and it is still not held by many libraries and was not indexed in the cumulative medical index. It is understandable, therefore, that it was not mentioned at the conference held by the Medical Research Council in 1947 to discuss the reasons for the increase in mortality attributed to lung cancer (Hill, personal communication) and was not referred to when Hill and I published our first paper on the association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer,2 although we did refer . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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