The danger of cigarettes is mostly not in smoking them, argues a study by three doctors at the KS Hegde Medical Academy in Mangalore, India. Or, put another way: the danger comes from not smoking. Figuratively blowing smoke in the face of conventional wisdom, the study asks: “Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?” Arunachalam Kumar, Kasaragod Mallya and Jairaj Kumar take little for granted….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.