The danger of cigarettes is mostly not in smoking them, argues a study by three doctors at the KS Hegde Medical Academy in Mangalore, India. Or, put another way: the danger comes from not smoking. Figuratively blowing smoke in the face of conventional wisdom, the study asks: " Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?"
Arunachalam Kumar, Kasaragod Mallya and Jairaj Kumar take little for granted….
So begins this week's Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
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