The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7227 p801
7 December 2002

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Smoking cessation pioneer reaches 90

Sir Richard Doll, emeritus professor of medicine and vice president of the smoking cessation charity QUIT, celebrated his 90th birthday at a lunch held at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, on 29 November.

The event celebrated the work he has carried out over more than 50 years in establishing a link between smoking and cancer. In 1950, he provided the first statistical proof of the link between cancer and smoking.