The early days of pneumonectomy for lung cancer.
There is no doubt that the widespread habit of cigarette smoking, which commenced among the troops in the First World War and which became almost universal in the second, was responsible for the rise in incidence of cancer of the lung throughout the Western World to its position today as the commonest cause of deaths from malignant disease.
Department of Anatomy, Guy's Hospital, University of London, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 1UL.
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