Public Health & Epidemiology · Recorded milestone
Smoking linked to lung cancer
Recorded year1950
Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill, and Ernst Wynder and Evarts Graham, show smokers get far more lung cancer, starting the fight against tobacco.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.