A History of Cigarettes and the Killer Cancer

In the nineteenth century, record books show that Lung Cancer was so rare, it was practically non existant. All records up to the year 1900 show only about 100 cases. It wasnt until the mass production of cigarettes started in the 1880's that the contious chain of illnesses began to develop. A 20 to 30 year onset lag brought an incredible number of cases exploding in the 1930's. However, it was not until the 1950's that conclusive studies and evidence had emerged proving the correlation between smoking and lung cancer. By the 1970's, the once rarest cancer, had become the number one killer cancer in the Western World.