Smoking causes lung cancer
Tabaco como causa del cáncer de pulmón
- Date
- 1950-1954 · confidence high
- Place
- MRC / London School of Hygiene, London, England
- Credited to
- Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill; Ernst Wynder and Evarts Graham (United States)
- People
- 👤 Austin Bradford Hill1897–1991👤 Ernst Wynder1922–1999👤 Evarts Ambrose Graham1883–1957👤 Richard Doll1912–2005
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Case-control studies (1950) and the British doctors cohort (1954) established the causal link between smoking and lung cancer, the first major environmental cause of cancer demonstrated epidemiologically.
What it led to
- anti-smoking policies and health warnings
- epidemiology of chronic disease
- a decline in lung cancer mortality in developed countries
Built on
Made possible
- prospective cohort studies