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Smoking and Lung Cancer
It was not until the 1950s that British researchers first connected cigarette smoking with the huge rise in people suffering from lung cancer.
It was not until the 1950s that British researchers first connected cigarette smoking with the huge rise in people suffering from lung cancer. Initially, scientists had thought pollution was a much more likely cause. Hear an archive interview with Sir Richard Doll who carried out the original studies and Sir Richard Peto who worked with him.
This programme was first broadcast in 2013
(Photo: A man smoking a cigarette. Credit: Press Association)
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