ABSTRACT
The subject of smoking and health is too broad to be treated adequately in a single chapter of this book. I shall therefore direct most of my arguments to the two associations of outstanding interest: those between smoking on the one hand and lung cancer and coronary heart disease on the other. In terms of notoriety the connexion with lung cancer must be regarded as the more important but, in terms of the supposed numbers of deaths caused by smoking, coronary heart disease claims first place in the Royal College of Physicians (1977) league table. Professor Eysenck and I have both studied the relationships between smoking and these two diseases; our writings on these matters illustrate, conveniently, the similarities and differences in our perspectives.
