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You've probably seen him at a conference somewhere. If it
was a decade or two ago, possibly he sidled up to the rostrum in jeans
and open-necked shirt. He may have looked anxious, with head bowed,
eyes flickering up, perhaps assessing the chairman's tolerance of what
he was about to do. Then he back-swiped a nervous hand through an
unruly fringe of hair, and said: "I'm not going to give the paper I
was supposed to present today. I've decided to tell you about
something so much more important that it would be just plain wrong to
let the opportunity go by. . . ." And there will
have followed a devastating tour of the latest statistics on morbidity
and mortality from tobacco. This was Richard Peto, enfant terrible of epidemiology, passionate
and angry at the impossibly large burdens of disease caused by totally
preventable factors, especially tobacco, and unafraid of rocking
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