Scientist Who Linked Smoking, Cancer Dies

YAHOO NEWS ^ | 07/24/2005 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

LONDON - Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who first established a link between smoking and lung cancer, died Sunday at age 92, Oxford University said.

The epidemiologist died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after a short illness, said the university, where Doll worked at its Imperial Cancer Research Center. The exact cause of death was not immediately released.

Doll's seminal 1950 study, which he wrote with Austin Bradford Hill, showed that smoking was "a cause, and a major cause" of lung cancer.

Doll remained active up to his death, releasing a follow-up study to the 1954 report in 2004 that showed at least half, and perhaps as many as two-thirds, of people who begin smoking in their youth are eventually killed by the habit.

There was no immediate word on survivors or funeral arrangements.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So....what did he die of?

[scott says]

Lung cancer s/

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

PING

[LibFreeUSA]

How 'bout 'old age'?

[handy old one]

So....what did he die of?

Too many cigs crammed down his throat to prove cigs do not cause cancer.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[bobdsmith]

There was no immediate word on survivors or funeral arrangements.

Huh???

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

How 'bout 'old age'?

Reagan smoked for years and lived to be 93. But I guess Mr. Doll would have blamed it on lung cancer.

[Mike Bates]

In 1604, James I of England wrote: “Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.” The king also claimed that if he ever had the devil over for dinner, he’d give him a pipe to puff on.

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[handy old one]

They died before him. Some one lite the cigs and the resulting fire consumed the body??

[American Vet Repairman]

"So....what did he die of?"

My guess..heart stopped beating.

[Fawn]

Did anyone in here quit smoking? If so----why? Honestly.

[Gabz]

His initial research was without question before it's time.......unfortunately later on he picked up on the PC propaganda and added to it.

However the man has now passed on and I offer condolences to the family and may he Rest in Peace.

[LenS]

So the tobacco industry's elite team of ninja assasins finally caught up to their arch-nemesis . . . . bwaahhaahahahaahhaa!!!

[muawiyah]

Whatever he proved, he's dead anyway.

[muir_redwoods]

"Did anyone in here quit smoking? If so----why? Honestly."

I quit because it's unhealthful, it stinks, it's expensive and it seems silly for a packet of weeds to control my life. I live in CT and worked on tobacco farms (yes we grow tobacco in CT) in my youth and there is possibly no fouler plant cultivated. It is sticky, smells awful and harbors invertibrate wildlife you wouldn't believe.

But to each his or her own.

[muawiyah]

Jamie, though, had his own vices. These days there's no doubt he'd been using blue-meth suppositories.

[Fawn]

Congrats......but how is it 'unhealthful'?

[isom35]

he was about to spill the beans on whitewater. pretty weird timing eh?

[oh8eleven]

I smoked for about 15 years and quit in 1981. The primary reasons were smell, cost (even when only $1 pack), and the known negative health effects.

I took up running the same weekend I quit and have been running ever since - including three marathons in the late 80s.