
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blows, Stephanie 
A1  - Chapman, Simon 
T1  - Sir Richard Doll 1912&#8211;2005
JF  - New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
JO  - NSW Public Health Bull.
Y1  - 2005
VL  - 16
IS  - 10
SP  - 159
EP  - 160
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/NB05044 
N2  - 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. 
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