Smoking and Lung Cancer

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It wasn't 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 of Sir Richard Doll who carried out the original studies and Sir Richard Peto who worked with him. (Image: A man holding a cigarette and blowing out smoke. Credit: Press Association)