Edward Cuyler Hammond was an #American #epidemiologist who was the first to link #smoking with #l…

Edward Cuyler Hammond was an #American #epidemiologist who was the first to link #smoking with #lungcancer.

In 1957, while research director of the #AmericanCancerSociety, Hammond told congressional investigators that #cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and has a severe effect on a number of other diseases.

"Evidence that smoking is a serious #health #hazard has been accumulating slowly since about 1915," he said, and that recent studies have produced "overwhelming" evidence that cigarette smoking "is a causative factor of great importance in the occurrence of lung cancer." He continued that there has been an "alarming trend in the #death rates from lung cancer," with the number of deaths rising from 2,500 in 1930 to an estimated 29,000 in 1956.

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