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Page 2051 1 for his work on asbestos, but also noteworthy for his 2 studies of the relationship between cigarette smoking 3 and lung cancer. 4 He was the first really to make that 5 association in human beings by epidemiologic studies. 6 Q Now, based upon that information and based 7 upon all of the prior information and your continuing 8 review of the medical and scientific literature, do 9 you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of 10 scientific certainty as to when it was established in 11 the medical and scientific community that there was an 12 association between asbestos exposure and lung cancer 13 in human beings? 14 A Well, in my opinion, the material 15 accumulated to a high point that the causal 16 relationship could be established by 1949 when Dr. 17 Merewether made his presentations of cases related to 18 asbestosis. 19 But minimally by 1955 when Dr. Doll did his 20 epidemiologic study and found a large increase of lung 21 cancer among asbestos-exposed population.