Book Detail
Edition: First Edition
Release: 2009-11-01
Publisher: Interlink Signal
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1904955630
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Smoking Kills pdf
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At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis - and no one knew why.
On 30 September 1950, a young physician named Richard Doll concluded in a research paper that smoking cigarettes was a cause and an important cause of the rapidly increasing epidemic of lung cancer. His historic and contentious finding marked the beginning of a life-long crusade against premature death and the forces of Big Tobacco .
Born in 1912, Doll, a natural patrician, jettisoned his Establishment background and joined the Communist Party as a reaction to the anarchy and waste of capitalism in the 1930s. He treated the blistered feet of the Jarrow Marchers, served as a medical officer at the retreat to Dunkirk, and became a true hero of the NHS. A political revolutionary and an epidemiologist with a Darwinian heart-of-stone, Doll fulfilled his early ambition to be a valuable member o Download Smoking Kills for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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