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The Wynder and Graham 1950 study was able to conclude that "smoking was an important factor in the production of bronchogenic carcinoma," but smoking wasn't established as a causal factor until four years later, when Wynder published another paper entitled, "Tobacco as a Cause of Lung Cancer" [8] The same year Wynder and Graham published their ...
Ernst Ludwig Wynder (April 30, 1922 – July 14, 1999) was an American epidemiology and public health researcher who studied the health effects of smoking tobacco. [1] His and Evarts Ambrose Graham's joint publication of "Tobacco Smoking as a Possible Etiologic Factor in Bronchiogenic Carcinoma: A Study of 684 Proved Cases" appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
By 1954 it had evidence from three years of doctors' deaths, based on which the government issued advice that smoking and lung cancer rates were related [319] [22] (the British Doctors Study last reported in 2001, [22] by which time there were approximately 40 linked diseases). [14]
Cancer Research UK estimates there were nearly 160 cancer cases attributed to smoking diagnosed in the ... Smoking could cause almost 300,000 cancer cases in the UK over the next five years ...
At least 20.8 million years of life lost from smoking tobacco alone, study reveals Smoking causes 150 cancer cases every single day in UK, study finds Skip to main content
Tobacco smoking is associated with many forms of cancer, [20] and causes 80% of lung cancer. [21] Decades of research has demonstrated the link between tobacco use and cancer in the lung, larynx, head, neck, stomach, bladder, kidney, esophagus and pancreas. [ 22 ]
Smoking tobacco is so harmful to the body that it changes a person’s immune system, leaving them vulnerable to more disease and infection even years after they’ve quit, a new study found ...
Richard Doll in 1950 published research in the British Medical Journal showing a close link between smoking and lung cancer. [32] Four years later, in 1954 the British Doctors Study, a study of some 40 thousand doctors over 20 years, confirmed the link, based on which the government issued advice that smoking and lung cancer rates were related.