UK anti-smoking policies comparable with 19th-century sanitation reform, expert says

Seventy years after link between smoking and cancer discovered, Sir Richard Peto praises public health initiatives but warns tobacco deaths have been normalisedPublic health initiatives on smoking in the UK are comparable by scale with the interventions made regarding clean water and sanitation in the 19th century, a leading expert has said.Sir Richard Peto, emeritus professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, worked alongside the scientist Richard Doll, who uncovered the link between smoking and cancer 70 years ago on Wednesday. Continue reading...