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  1. 1912- . British physician who, working with
  2. Professor Bradford Hill (1897-) provided the
  3. first statistical proof of the link between
  4. smoking and lung cancer in 1950. In a later
  5. study of the smoking habits of doctors, they
  6. were able to show that stopping smoking
  7. immediately reduces the risk of cancer.
  8.