Even till last year Doll was active in his research on the effects of smoking and during his lifetime greatly contributed to the development of an anti-smoking campaign. Doll remained active up to his death, releasing a follow-up study in 2004 that showed at least half, and perhaps as many as two-thirds, of people who begin smoking in their youth are eventually killed by the habit.
IMPERIAL TOBACCO CASE
In May this year, Lord Nimmo Smith dismissed a widow’s case against Imperial Tobacco, seeming to suggest that the link between smoking and cancer remained unproven.
Doll offered to show him the evidence, to clear up his apparent misunderstanding.