Smoking and Cancer... Communication from Higgins.

The article presents the author's view on the "A Critical Reassessment of the Evidence Bearing on Smoking as the Cause of Lung Cancer" by Theodore D. Sterling. According to Sterling, the level of lung cancer mortality in the U.S. among men especially non-white, the rates have increased and among women there was a dramatic increase in the rates during the 1950's. The smoking-lung cancer hypothesis sets the trends in women's mortality. Sterling cited the evidence that women have increased their smoking since 1955.