At 10:00 07/02/00 -0600, you wrote:
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>Years ago, I heard that RA Fisher, late in his life, had been commissioned
>by the British tobacco industry to write a piece about smoking and cancer.
>...
Try
Smoking, the cancer controversy. Some attempts to assess the evidence
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959
contains 6 papers of RAF's from 1957-1958
incl.
Cigarettes, cancer and Statistics, Centennial Review, 2 151-166, 1958
Dangers of cigarette smoking. Brit Med J 1957;2:297-298. (>"P. Callow" )
See also RAF collected Works where all are printed plus preface to above book
C. Moncrieff
<C.B. Moncrieff, Head of Biometry, The Nat. Hist. Mus., London>
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