Lung cancer Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in…

— Richard Peto

I don't live in the city, I don't work in a high-risk environment, and I am not a smoker. So it was never anything…

— Dana Reeve

“It was true in the early 1960s, more women smoked than men.”

— Jay Conrad Levinson

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity…

— Richard Doll

As smoking has disappeared from television screens, planes, bars and restaurants, and other public spaces, the smoking rate has dropped to a third of…

— Annie Lowrey

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who…

— Joe Eszterhas

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there…

— Joe Eszterhas

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have…

— Valerie Harper

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our…

— Laurie Glimcher

About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.

— Michael Greger