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See also the Medicine Through Time super-bundle.

From Patrick Kelly’s outstanding History of Medicine series. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource.

The film is a fascinating and engaging interrogation of the scientific process. Beginning with pre-Colombian use of tobacco as medicine, imported into Europe and developed in the context of contemporary medicine (including tobacco enemas!). Percival Pott and high rates of cancer among chimney-sweeps; mouth cancers in smokers; Nicotiana rustica vs. N. tabacum; Bonsack’s rolling machine. Difficulty in confirming lung-cancer; X-rays. The Epidemiological Transition. Dr. Angel Roffo’s experiments. Big Tobacco. Nazi hostility to smoking, and research. The Institute for the Struggle against the Dangers of Tobacco, passive smoking. Case-control, dose-response, and specificity studies. Four 1950 papers: Wynder and Graham; Levin, Goldstein, and Gerhardt; Schrek, Baker, Ballard, and Dolgoff; Doll and Bradford Hill. Industry responses: menthol added; king-size cigarettes; endorsement by doctors; filters. Retro- vs. prospective studies. Hammond and Horn. The impact of research and evidence.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s Patrick Kelly channel for “How Did We Discover Smoking Causes Cancer? | Patrick Kelly"

15 questions for the 26 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.