Nobel Laureate: Smoking Is Top Cancer Priority

By ACSH Staff — Mar 12, 2002
Nobel laureate in medicine Sir Paul Nurse (Associated Press, Feb 25, 2002): "We will always have cancer with us because of natural mistakes in the natural body, so it will never be eliminated, but I think we can do much better than we are doing now...The single most major hit we can get for short-term cancer rates is to eliminate the use of tobacco."

Nobel laureate in medicine Sir Paul Nurse (Associated Press, Feb 25, 2002):

"We will always have cancer with us because of natural mistakes in the natural body, so it will never be eliminated, but I think we can do much better than we are doing now...The single most major hit we can get for short-term cancer rates is to eliminate the use of tobacco."

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