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Article Excerpt
Editor--In his commentary on early reports on smoking and lung cancer, Michael J. Thun ignores the actual first reports and concentrates on the series of case-control studies published in 1950, first in the United States and then in the United Kingdom (1). He also claims (as others have done) that in the pre-1950 era the most popular hypothesis was that "lung cancer mortality ... was more likely to have resulted from the widespread tarring of roads and exhaust from motor vehicles than from cigarette smoking". Could he please produce contemporary--i.e. pre-1950--references on this hypothesis that match the veritable mountain of publications from pre-1950 implicating cigarette smoking (2), in particular, formal analytical studies of road tarring and motor exhaust similar to the many analytical studies of smoking and lung cancer?
Of course, as is now well known (3, 4, 5-10), extensive research on smoking and lung cancer appeared before 1950, much--but not all --of it from Weimar and then Nazi Germany. In 1928 Schonherr from Chemnitz drew attention to the high rates of smoking in...
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