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Tobacco Control 2002;11:92-93; doi:10.1136/tc.11.2.92-b
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Tobacco Control 2002;11:92-93
© 2002 Tobacco Control

News analysis

40 years on

David Simpson

March 7 saw the 40th anniversary of the publication of Smoking and health, the report that could be said to have started it all off. The pioneering epidemiological work of the late Austin Bradford Hill and his younger collaborator Dr (now Sir) Richard Doll, and American colleagues such as Wynder and Hammond, formed the scientific foundations on which the first report of the Royal College of Physicians of London was constructed. That review of the then relatively new but rapidly expanding body of evidence of the devastation we now know smoking causes to health, led directly to the first US Surgeon General's report on the subject.


Ali Shahali from Iran won first place in the World's Fastest Clown 2001 international cartoon competition with his cartoon. The competition aimed to reflect the dangers of tobacco and attracted entries from 47 countries. View the other finalists at www.worldsfastestclown.com/finalist.html

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