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Smoking Kills
Conrad Keating
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Description for Smoking Kills
Paperback. The authorised biography of the doctor who made the link between smoking & lung cancer and battled Big Tobacco Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: BGT; MBNS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 784.
At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis - and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young physician named Richard Doll concluded in a research paper that smoking cigarettes was "a cause and an important cause" of the rapidly increasing epidemic of lung cancer. His historic and contentious finding marked the beginning of a life-long crusade against premature death and the forces of "Big Tobacco". Born in 1912, Doll, a natural patrician, jettisoned his ... Read more
At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis - and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young physician named Richard Doll concluded in a research paper that smoking cigarettes was "a cause and an important cause" of the rapidly increasing epidemic of lung cancer. His historic and contentious finding marked the beginning of a life-long crusade against premature death and the forces of "Big Tobacco". Born in 1912, Doll, a natural patrician, jettisoned his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930049
SKU
V9781909930049
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Ref
99-50
About Conrad Keating
Conrad Keating is the Writer-in-Residence at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University. As a professional historian he has written for newspapers, radio and television. Born in Ireland he has lived much of his life in the UK.
Reviews for Smoking Kills
"A well-crafted biography of Doll, [who] single-handedly saved millions of lives with his findings." - New Scientist "As this fascinating and fair-minded biography makes clear, while Doll's political instincts were radical, he was nevertheless a conservative scientist, always cautious in causal inference... Impressive and engaging." - International Journal of Epidemiology