[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.

[bobdsmith]

There was no immediate word on survivors or funeral arrangements.

Huh???

[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.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[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.

[isom35]

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

[roylene]

I would say his study is a fraud, everyone who smokes will die.

[southernnorthcarolina]

It might be a bit much to imply, as the article did, that Dr. Doll was the person to establish the link between smoking and lung cancer. Surely, ever since the first "Native American" rolled up some dead leaves, stuck them in his mouth, set them afire, and sucked the smoke into his lungs, reasonable observers began questioning whether this was a good idea.

In the 1950s, about half the adult population of the United States smoked; now, it's about a quarter of the adult population. I have no idea what the stats are in Dr. Doll's native UK, but I suspect the trend is down there as well. So, though I doubt that Dr. Doll should receive exclusive credit for the smoking-cancer link, even if his work resulted in only a one-tenth of 1% reduction in the number of smokers wordwide, he saved (or prolonged) hundreds of thousands of lives. Not a bad legacy.