Periodicals>Journal Article: Doll, Sir Richard (1950), Smoking and Carcinoma of the Lung, British Medical Journal, 1950, ii, 746, Retrieved on 2012-04-25
Folksonomies: cancer Memes
25 APR 2012
The Link Between Smoking and Cancer
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60—that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative ass...Risk increases with the amount smoked. Saved here for historical reference.