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The Emperor who smoked a pipe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Rae Duncan Laurenson
Rae Duncan Laurenson*
Affiliation:
Aberdeen
*
Address for correspondence: Dr R. D. Laurenson, 2212 12 Avenue N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1K2.
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Abstract

Since 1946 authoritative reports have identified smoking as a cause of cancer of the lung and a probable cause of cancer of the larynx. Crown Prince Frederick (later Emperor Frederick III of Prussia and the German Kaiser) was a pipe smoker for at least 30 years before he died of cancer of the larynx in 1888 at the age of 57 years. The evidence is so overwhelming that this author proposes that the Emperor's laryngeal cancer was induced by tobacco.

Keywords

History of Medicine, C19thLaryngeal neoplasmsSmoking

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Type
Historical Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 109 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 1 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1995

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