Multiple choice

Who was the first to establish the link between smoking and cancer?

  1. Richard Doll

  2. Francis Peyton Rous

  3. Malcolm Ross

  4. Otto Warburg

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Explanation

Richard Doll's 1950 study with Austin Bradford Hill was the first to establish the statistical link between smoking and lung cancer. This British doctor's research was groundbreaking in proving smoking's health risks. Otto Warburg studied cancer metabolism but not the smoking link.

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