Select Committee on Health Minutes of Evidence

Appendix 1

Table 1

PROPORTION OF HEAVY SMOKERS IN US POPULATIONS IN THE LATE 1920s

	Hoffman, 1927		Lombard & Doering, 1928
Population	Proportion	(%)	Proportion	(%)
Patients attending cancer clinics with:
cancers supposed to be affected by smoking	34/35	(97)	8/17	(53)
lung cancer* Other cancer	5/5 106/144	(100)
(74)	17/38	(45)
16,662 life insurance policy holders	—	—	—	(33)

* Included with other cancers in original analysis.

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Prepared 14 January 2000