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.

Oxford University said the epidemiologist died at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after a short illness.

His seminal 1950 study, which he wrote alongside Austin Bradford Hill, showed that smoking was "a cause, and a major cause" of lung cancer.