In the Netherlands, in 1948 reported a possible link between smoking and lung cancer. This was followed soon other scientific evidence that smoking can cause cancers. Especially the deceased Sir Richard Doll in 2005 from England has pioneered. Doll was the first to devastating relationship between smoking and cancer scientifically proven.
Smoking causes lung cancer. Of all people with lung cancer is nearly 90% of cases directly attributable to smoking. In 9323 deceased people to lung cancer in 2004, with 8033 times smoking was the cause. Scientists have calculated that one in seven smokers (early) dies from lung cancer. (more…)
