Case Report

Cigarette Smoking and Lung Cancer: A Consideration of this Relationship

Authors: R. H. RIGDON, MD

Abstract

The author is unwilling to accept a statistical association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer in the absence of the experimental production of cancer in animals. He insists that until the pathogenesis of cancer, and he includes heart disease as well, can be established on experimental data, the association with smoking is “statistical” and therefore unscientific.

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