Some Practical Aspects of the Smoking-Cancer Problem

Abstract

THE majority of those who have investigated the epidemiology of lung cancer are in agreement that smoking, particularly of cigarettes, represents one of the causes of cancer of the lung. Several health authorities have publicly supported this view. These include the United States Surgeon General, Leroy Burney, the Director of the National Cancer Institute, John Heller, the American Cancer Society, the Health Commissioner of the State of New York, Herman Hilleboe, and the public-health services of Great Britain and the Netherlands.^{1 2 3 4 5 6} It is no longer an argument whether smoking affects the development of lung cancer, but rather a question of . . .