Even with all six Mercury V8s spinning at full throttle, the only thing you hear from behind the helm is the rush of wind
The figures obtained are admittedly speculative, but suggest that, above the age of 45, the risk of developing the disease increases in simple proportion with the amount smoked, and that it may be approximately 50 times as great among those who smoke 25 or more cigarettes a day as among non-smokers CIGARETTES AND CANCER (3 pages) Editorial British Medical Journal 1950 (volume 2), pages 767-768 September 30, 1950 Correspondence British Medical Journal 1950 (volume 2), page 889 October 14, 1950 It is not easy to adopt an unbiased attitude to the concept that smoking causes cancer: we are all either smokers or non-smokers, and each group may regard the other as prejudiced
But even if smoking rates stay down, smoking's return to glamour at least as a pose, if not as a habit matters
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