Smoking and Lung Cancer
Witness History: Witness Archive 2016
English - June 16, 2016 07:50 - 8 minutes - 4.06 MB - ★★★ - 8 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It was not until the 1950s that British researchers first connected cigarette smoking with the huge rise in people suffering from lung cancer. Initially, scientists had thought pollution was a much more likely cause. Hear an archive interview with Sir Richard Doll who carried out the original studies and Sir Richard Peto who worked with him.
This programme was first broadcast in 2013
(Photo: A man smoking a cigarette. Credit: Press Association)