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Richard Doll: The man who stopped smoking

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Uploaded by on Jul 7, 2009

Richard Doll was a luminary of clinical research whose case control study, published in the BMJ in 1950, first identified smoking as an important cause of cancer and other diseases.

He carried his research out on doctors in the UK who smoked, and tracked their mortality over the course of 50 years. The latest paper being published in the BMJ in 2004.

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  • To prevent 1000 million deaths this century they should really stop selling those darn things over the counter.

  • true SO true

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  • Can there really be a habit more stupid than smoking?

  • Brilliant.

  • The Gross turnover including taxation of British American Tobacco in 2008 was £33,921,000,000.

    This trade should be stopped.

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