“You shouldn’t frighten people into thinking smoking might be dangerous.”
Richard Doll recalls the reaction of the UK Department of Health’s cancer advisory committee to his 1952 study that showed a link between smoking and lung cancer (The Observer, London, 24 April)
“You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding.”
Werner Smolnik of a nature protection society in Hamburg, Germany, on the unexplained phenomenon of exploding toads in the Altona district of the city (Agence France Presse, 23 April)
“I could feel the hairs standing up on my arms. ‘I think I’ve got that,’ I thought – although I wasn’t sure.”…
