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Smoking and lung cancer: causality, Cornfield and an early observational meta-analysis
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As has been noted before,1 we receive a surprising number of papers that present data on smoking and lung cancer with a contrived air of originality and excitement. This is the first time that the link has been shown in this particular subgroup of our population! Well, the second perhaps, but we could adjust for more confounders. We have none of these papers in this issue of the IJE—or in fact in any issue, unless under the influence of influenza or a hangover we allow our guard to slip. However, we are lucky enough to publish the second article on smoking and lung cancer under our editorship that is indeed exciting and original. The first of these was our translation into English of Schairer and Schöniger's pioneering case–control study carried out in Germany in the early 1940s.2 The second is a reprint to mark 50 years