Salsburg, D. 2001.
``
The Lady Tasting Tea
-- How statistics revolutionized science
in the twentieth century''.
Owl Book.
Chapter 18. Does Smoking Cause Cancer?
In 1958, R.A. Fisher published a paper entitled
``Cigarettes, Cancer, and Statistics'' in the
Centennial Review,
and two papers in
Nature
entitled ``Lung Cancer and Cigarettes?'' and
``Cancer and Smoking.'' He then pulled these together,
along with an extensive preface, in a pamphlet entitled
``Smoking: the Cancer Controversy. Some Attempts to
Assess the Evidence.'' In these papers, Fisher
(who was ofted phtographed smoking a pipe) insisted
that the evidence purported to show that smoking caused
lung cancer was badly flawed.