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	Richard Doll Encyclopedia Article @ InoperableCancer.com (Inoperable Cancer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Doll was born at Hampton into an affluent family, though his father's work as a doctor was cut short by multiple sclerosis.
		Doll also helped found the National Blood Service, and was key in avoiding a system of paying donors for their blood, as had been adopted in the United States.
		Doll was Knighted in 1971, and made a Companion of Honour in 1996 for "services of national importance".
	www.inoperablecancer.com /encyclopedia/Richard_Doll (1071 words)

	Richard Doll, An Epidemiologist Gone Awry
		Doll reassured the workers that the new exposure limit would reduce their lifetime risk of dying from cancer to "a pretty outside chance" of 1 in 40 (2.5%).
		In 1988, Doll claimed that the excess mortality from leukemia and multiple myeloma among serviceman exposed to radiation from atom bomb tests was a "statistical quirk" (60).
		Doll's long-standing domination of U.K. cancer charities (66) and government policy is exemplified by a 1999 letter from the Ministry of Health stating that, based on Doll's 1981 report (11), "relatively little of the cancer burden (5-10%) is attributed to occupational, environmental or consumer exposure to specific chemicals" (67).
	www.preventcancer.com /losing/other/doll.htm (1058 words)

	Richard Doll, 92; helped establish link of smoking, lung cancer - The Boston Globe
		WASHINGTON -- Richard Doll, the British scientist who was among the first researchers to show a dramatic connection between lung cancer and smoking, died yesterday at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England.
		Doll released a follow-up study in 2004 that showed at least half, and perhaps as many as two-thirds, of people who begin smoking in their youth are eventually killed by the habit.
		Doll was regarded as one of the most eminent scientists of his generation.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/07/25/richard_doll_92_helped_establish_link_of_smoking_lung_cancer (616 words)

	Sir Richard Doll \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Doll's later meticulous approach to the structure of studies, to the mathematics they use and to the collection, analysis and quality of information needed to render them valid, sprang from this and earlier work.
		Doll was asked to develop a method for measuring the concentration of vitamin B1 in urine, part of an investigation into a possible connection between B1 deficiency and heart failure.
		Doll testified that the industry had been aware of the risks since around 1950, when he published his results and was immediately visited by two men from Imperial Tobacco.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1535359,00.html (1897 words)

	In Memoriam: Sir Richard Doll: Yale School of Public Health
		Sir Richard was born William Richard Shaboe Doll in London in 1912.
		Initially, Doll believed the increase in lung cancer diagnoses was either due to car exhaust fumes or to the tar on the roads.
		Sir Richard Doll is predeceased by his wife, Dr. Joan Faulkner, and survived by their son and daughter.
	info.med.yale.edu /eph/news/sept05/doll.html (717 words)

	Richard Doll's Contribution to Smoking Research
		Doll and Hill thought there was little use repeating their survey among other lung cancer patients, so they chose another group of people whom the medical profession might regard as more reliable: doctors.
		Doll's work on smoking came to an unofficial end last year, when, on precisely the 50th anniversary of his preliminary British Medical Journal paper of 1954, he and his colleagues published their final follow-up report.
		Doll was less impressed last year when the government failed to follow the example set in Ireland and ban smoking from all public places (rather than just those which serve food).
	courseweb.edteched.uottawa.ca /Medicine_Health/data/Smoking_Richard_Doll_e.htm (2301 words)

	Professor Sir Richard Doll
		Professor Sir Richard Doll, the epidemiologist and former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University who died yesterday aged 92, was one of the first two scientists to link smoking with lung cancer.
		In 1986 Doll supported the findings of research which suggested that lung cancer could also be caused by "passive" smoking, and during the 1990s he was prominent in the campaign to persuade the Government to ban tobacco advertising.
		Doll's findings contributed to the development of an increasingly vociferous anti-smoking campaign, and sparked controversy between health experts and civil libertarians about the role of the state in interfering with individual decisions.
	www.tobacco.org /news/202588.html?top_only=1 (376 words)

	Richard Doll; linked smoking and cancer Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Doll remained active up to his death, releasing a follow-up study in 2004 that showed at least half, and perhaps as many as two- thirds, of people who begin smoking in their youth are eventually killed by the habit.
		Doll was the "godfather" of the health movement against tobacco and its effects.
		Doll is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20050725/ai_n14914788 (575 words)

	[Intl-tobacco] Sir Richard Doll dies at 92
		William Richard Shaboe Doll was born at Hampton, the son of Henry Doll and Amy Shaboe, into a background of some affluence, despite his father=92s having had to abandon medical practice because of multiple sclerosis.
		Doll thought that the increasing incidence of the disease might owe something to the hundreds of tonnes of tarmac being laid down across Britain at this time, but soon discovered that in 649 lung cancer cases there were only two non-smokers.
		Doll travelled widely and was much in demand as a lecturer or adviser in medical circles all over the world.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/intl-tobacco/2005q3/001248.html (1206 words)

	Sir Richard Doll
		Sir Richard Doll, who passed away on 24th July 2005 at the age of 92, played a key role in the founding of the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
		Sir Richard worked with, and mentored, many scientists in his career; his association with Sir Austin Bradford Hill and Sir Richard Peto is worthy of special mention.
		Sir Richard agreed to lend his name to the Richard Doll Lecture series at IARC and gave the inaugural lecture in September 2004, showing the clarity of his mind even at this point in his long career.
	www.iarc.fr /News/richarddoll.php (434 words)

	SIR RICHARD DOLL: A QUESTIONABLE PILLAR OF THE CANCER ESTABLISHMENT
		Doll first did work on mortality in asbestos workers in the 1950, producing a paper in 1955.6 His conclusions came down decidedly on the side of asbestos workers, whose health he said was being put in jeopardy.
		Though Doll started off as a dissident, one who was clearly concerned with the health of the people he was serving, as his career developed his views gradually changed and he became one of the most powerful and influential promoters of entrenched industrial and political interests.
		Doll's estimates of natural low-level radiation from Radon were based on an assessment of the levels of lung cancer among uranium miners exposed to high levels of radon gas.
	www.familiesagainstcancer.org /?id=129 (7157 words)

	The Observer Profile: Richard Doll \| Special reports \| The Observer
		Doll's influence on British life goes far further than merely leading to the instigation of smoking bans and general antagonism to cigarettes.
		And at the age of 89, Doll - who took up cigarettes when 18 and continued until he was 37 (in the process, failing to collect his father's promise of a £50 reward if he quit before the age of 21) - is living proof of the accuracy of his own research.
		Richard Doll retired, theoretically, a couple of decades ago, but continues to display a voracious appetite for research.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /science/story/0,,750852,00.html (1344 words)

	Richard Doll: a really dodgy scientist
		Sir Richard seems to be unaware that two other papers he cites show that children have higher leukaemia risks if their fathers are internally contaminated.
		The Nordic Leukaemia study(2), of which Sir Richard was a named author, was published shortly before the famous prosecution of BNFL by two families of Sellafield employees.
		Sir Richard Doll's editorial comments on the Newcastle University paper(1) cannot inflate Kinlen's population mixing hypothesis to the status of being "regarded as established".
	www.llrc.org /health/subtopic/doll.htm (1831 words)

	Sir Richard Doll \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who was among the first researchers to show a dramatic connection between lung cancer and smoking, died Sunday at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England.
		When Sir Richard began his research, smoking had long been considered a vice and a contributor to numerous ailments, including cancer of the lip.
		William Richard Shaboe Doll was born Oct. 28, 1912, in Hampton, west of London.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050726/news_1m26doll.html (602 words)

	Sir Richard Doll 1912-2005
		The death of Sir Richard Doll this year at the age of 92 brings to a close an era spanning six decades in which cancer epidemiology was born, grew up, and attained its maturity.
		Doll was not shy about facing the limits of epidemiology in controversial areas such as whether saccharin caused bladder cancer,(12) the effects of living near nuclear power plants,(13) and fluoridation.
		Doll R, Peto R. The causes of cancer: quantitative estimates of avoidable risks of cancer in the United States today.
	www.nypcancerprevention.com /issue/6/pro/pro_features/sir-richard-doll-19122005.shtml (601 words)

	Cancer and the Environment - National Cancer Institute
		When Doll and Peto wrote their article, there was very little information on viruses and bacteria.
		Doll and Peto assumed that several environmental exposures in the industrial arena were the same as in the general population.
		**Doll R. Epidemiological evidence of the effects of behavior and the environment on the risk of human cancer.
	www.cancer.gov /newscenter/benchmarks/page1 (2356 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Lung cancer scientist dies at 92
		Initially Sir Richard suspected the cause to be car exhaust fumes, but he soon began to investigate the growing trend of cigarette smoking.
		With Professor Austin Bradford Hill, Sir Richard proved that the risk of lung cancer was directly proportional to the number of cigarettes his patients smoked.
		Sir Richard was married with one son and one daughter.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1218554.stm (754 words)

	Quit Smoking Gradually With Proven Stop Smoking Technique
		Sir Richard Doll He was knighted and won many awards for his work.
		Richard Doll, 92, the British scientist who was among the first researchers to show a dramatic connection between lung cancer and smoking, died July 24 at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England.
		William Richard Shaboe Doll was born Oct. 28, 1912, in Hampton, on the River Thames west of London.
	www.smokefreesociety.org /NewsClip/Doll-1.asp (946 words)

	CANCERactive : Professor Sir Richard Doll
		Although Professor Sir Richard Doll was guest of honour at the topping out ceremony of the Richard Doll Building for Trials and Epidemiology, when his colleagues, Valerie move into their new home, in the spring, the 92-year-old will not be joining them.
		Professor Doll likes to present the facts and leave the campaigning to others, but he is pleased that his initial conclusions have led to the "Smoking Kills" warnings on cigarettes, and the proposed ban on smoking in cafes, restaurants and most pubs from 2006.
		Doll was also awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and a higher doctorate (DSc) by the University of London in 1958.
	www.iconmag.co.uk /page.php?n=862 (3007 words)

	WHO \| Sir Richard Doll (1912 - 2005)
		GENEVA -- The Tobacco Free Initiative is saddened by the death of Sir Richard Doll, a true authority in the field of epidemiological research.
		Sir Richard Doll himself celebrated the work of WHO Member States in creating and adopting the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) -a legal instrument for public health intended to stop the tobacco epidemic- that has its roots in the findings of his research.
		Sir Richard Doll has been one of the greatest epidemiologists of the 20th century.
	www.who.int /tobacco/communications/richard_doll/en/index.html (398 words)

	R. Doll, linked smoking, lung cancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		LONDON - Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who first established a link between smoking and lung cancer, died Sunday.
		The epidemiologist, whose research was credited with preventing millions of premature deaths, died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after a short illness, according to Oxford University, where Doll worked at the Imperial Cancer Research Center.
		Doll remained active up to his death, releasing a follow-up study in 2004 that showed at least half, and perhaps as many as two-thirds, of people who begin smoking young are eventually killed by the habit.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0726death26.html (295 words)

	News: Oxford pays tribute to Sir Richard Doll
		Professor Sir Richard Doll, the eminent epidemiologist whose research established the causative association between smoking and lung cancer, died on Sunday 24 July, aged 92, at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after a short illness.
		It is fitting therefore that the University will shortly be opening the Richard Doll Building, where work on population studies, influenced by his visionary approach to the discipline, will continue to establish reliable assessments of the causes, prevention and treatment of cancers, heart attacks, strokes and other major diseases.
		Professor Sir Richard Doll was one of the most important medical scientists of the 20th century.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/news/2004-05/jul/25.shtml (680 words)

	Smoking and premature mortality: reflections on the contributions of Sir Richard Doll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Sir Richard was not the first to discover the link between smoking and disease, but he was surely the most influential scientist in tobacco research.
		Irrefutable evidence such as that produced by Sir Richard and his colleagues spurred the development of a range of tobacco-control measures.
		It is worth remembering the story about a person who heard Sir Richard speak in London in the 1960s and claimed loudly, "This is great; all we have to do is to get kids not to start smoking, and the epidemic will end." It turns out the person worked for the tobacco industry.
	www.tobacco.org /news/205962.html (442 words)

	Sir Richard Doll, Honorary Fellow, pre-eminent epidemiologist
		Eminent epidemiologist and LSHTM Honorary Fellow Sir Richard Doll has died aged 92 after a short illness.
		Sir Richard, who continued to work up until his death, was the greatest epidemiologist of his generation.
		Sir Richard will be most remembered for the ground-breaking studies over 50 years of the health effects of smoking, carried out with Austin Bradford Hill and continued with Richard Peto.
	www.lshtm.ac.uk /news/2005/richarddoll.html (393 words)

	News: Official opening of the Richard Doll Building
		Thursday 8 September saw the official opening of the Richard Doll Building, a medical research facility named in honour of Sir Richard Doll, the eminent doctor who discovered the link between smoking and cancer, and who died aged 92 on 24 July.
		The Richard Doll Building houses the University’s Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU); the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit (CEU); and part of the Department of Public Health.
		Professor Sir Richard Peto added: ‘Richard Doll’s work has prevented millions of premature deaths in the 20th century, and will prevent tens of millions of premature deaths in the present century.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/news/2004-05/sep/08a.shtml (443 words)

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