Does Smoking Really Cause Lung Cancer?
So far, most of the money given to the cancer industry has been spent looking for a cure for cancer. But it seems that cancer is a disease which has no cure. Traditionally, with solid tumours, cut it out has been the only real option – and it still is. Given that, wouldn’t it be better to concentrate more on preventing it? Oxford’s cancer expert, Sir Richard Doll, writing in The American Journal of Public Health , said that increasing cancer mortality “can be accounted for in all industrialized countries by the spread of cigarette smoking.” Unfortunately, this statement tends to be believed, despite the evidence against it. If smoking were a cause of any cancer, lung cancer is the most likely one. It was Sir Richard Doll who implicated smoking in a study published in 1964 – despite his own published data from that study which showed that people who inhaled cigarette smoke had less lung cancer than those who didn’t! The real cause of lung cancer, according to another Oxford research sci
