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Doll and Hill: Smoking and Carcinoma of the Lung

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Creators

  • Richard Doll, author
  • A. Bradford Hill, author

Canon Rationale

A landmark chronic-disease epidemiology paper, included for smoking/lung-cancer evidence, case-control design, public-health inference, and the historical formation of modern epidemiologic causality.

Evidence

  • citation context: Richard Doll and A. Bradford Hill, 'Smoking and Carcinoma of the Lung,' British Medical Journal, 1950.
  • review essay: C. White, 'Research on smoking and lung cancer: a landmark in the history of chronic disease epidemiology,' American Journal of Public Health, 1990.

Audit Flags

epistemic status required

Completion unit: read the full 1950 BMJ article with a short evidence-history context note. Do not treat one paper as the whole causal proof; keep the broader tobacco/lung-cancer evidence network visible.

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