Mortality in relation to smoking: the British Doctors Study
Breathe, 2016•Eur Respiratory Soc
… The work by Richard Doll (English physician, 1912–2005) and Richard Peto (English
epidemiologist and statistician, b. 1943), known as the British Doctors Study, is a milestone
in this field, since it can be considered the first strong statistical proof of the correlation
between smoking habit and many serious diseases, including lung cancer. Remarkably, the
study was carried out on a population of doctors, followed up for 50 years. …
epidemiologist and statistician, b. 1943), known as the British Doctors Study, is a milestone
in this field, since it can be considered the first strong statistical proof of the correlation
between smoking habit and many serious diseases, including lung cancer. Remarkably, the
study was carried out on a population of doctors, followed up for 50 years. …
Today, the uncountable negative effects of cigarette smoking are widely accepted, and it might seem odd to think about the fact that they were largely unsuspected until the 1950s, when many researchers started to study them in different parts of the world.
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