LUNG CANCER AND SMOKING
“Statistical Evidence Piling Up” LONDON. November 19. The Minister of Health (Mr R. Turton) said in London today that statistical evidence was piling up to show a connexion between cancer and heavy cigarette smoking. But no scientific proof of a connexion had yet been found, he said. The Minister was replying in the House of Commons to two Labour members, who had asked about a recent report by Professor Bradford Hill and Dr. Doll, which showed that the death rate from lung cancer among heavy smokers after a survey of 40,000 people, was 20 to 40 times that of non-smokers. Mr Turton said the Doll-Hill report, confirming the statistical association between smoking and lung cancer, was important, but it only confirmed facts previously known. “What we have always said is that there is no scientific proof of a connexion having yet been found. It may well be that it will be some time before that comes,” the Minister added. He rejected the Labour members’ suggestion that the Government should sponsor a national campaign to give information about smoking and cancer.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28131, 21 November 1956, Page 21
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