Editorial
The new prescription: industrial injuries benefits for smokers?
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Nationalisation of the coal industry by the 1945 Labour
Government provided Britain with a unique opportunity for preventing the disablement of coal miners. At that time several thousand miners
received disability benefits each year for pneumoconiosis in South
Wales alone, and the Medical Research Council had started an important
series of investigations into the relationships between dust exposure
and disease.1 2 The late Dr John Rogan, Chief Medical
Officer of the National Coal Board, with extraordinary far sightedness
set up the Pneumoconiosis Field Research which ultimately studied the
dust exposure, symptoms, chest radiographs, and lung function of some
50 000 miners over nearly 30 years.3 This research was
planned to answer the questions "How much and what kinds of dust
cause pneumoconiosis, and what dust concentrations need to be
maintained if miners are not to be disabled by the dust that they
breathe?" The National Coal Board embarked on a massively costly
programme of
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