How Did We Discover Smoking Causes Cancer? | Patrick Kelly

We all know that cigarette smoking is unhealthy. In modern day, we know it causes lung cancer and heart disease, but that wasn't always the case. How did we figure out that smoking causes cancer?

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0:00 Introduction
1:04 nice tobacco you got there
4:27 get ready for some gross images...
8:24 more red flags than your college boyfriend
12:56 of course there are Nazis!
15:03 I hope you like text and highlighters
22:54 The Bri'ish Doctuh Stoody luv

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Doll, Bradford Hill (1954) The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits: a preliminary report. British Medical Journal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Bradford Hill (1965) The Environment and disease: association or causation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Doll (1998) Uncovering the effects of smoking: historical perspective. Statistical Methods in Medical Research https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...

Proctor (2002) Tobacco and Health: expert witness report [USA vs Philip Morris] http://ftp.columbia.edu/itc/hs/pubhea...
Proctor (2012) The history of the discovery of the cigarette — lung cancer link: evidentiary traditions, corporate denial, global toll. Tobacco Control. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4151...

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