Scientist who first linked smoking with cancer dies

PROFESSOR Sir Richard Doll, the scientist whose research first established a link between smoking and lung cancer, died yesterday at the age of 92.

Following their study, Doll and Hill began research which asked doctors about their smoking habits and tracked them over the years to see what they eventually died from.

Early results confirmed that smokers were much more likely to die of lung cancer than non-smokers, and the 10-year results showed that smoking killed far more people from other diseases than from lung cancer.