
%0 Journal Article
%A Blows, Stephanie 
%A Chapman, Simon 
%T Sir Richard Doll 1912&#8211;2005
%J New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
%D 2005/10/01
%V 16
%N 10
%P 159-160
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/NB05044
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/NB05044 
%X Sir Richard Doll, who died in July aged 92, was an epidemiologist who demonstrated one of the most important causality relationships of the past century: the association between smoking and lung cancer. In collaboration with Sir Austin Bradford Hill, Doll conducted first a case control study and then a prospective cohort study of British doctors, comparing rates of lung cancer amongst smokers and nonsmokers. Although only a small number of deaths occurred in the first few years of the cohort study, Doll demonstrated a clear and significant increase in mortality from lung cancer as smoking increased and a smaller but significant increase in coronary thrombosis. In the 1950s, when 80 per cent of the British population smoked, the implications of these findings were very important. 
