The Mortality of Doctors in Relation to Their Smoking Habits
BMJPublished 26 June 1954Open access
Richard Doll, A. B. Hill
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While the various authors have all shown that there is an " association " between lung cancer and the amount of tobacco smoked, they have differed in -their interpretation.
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