“The story’s been told many times. Dr. Ochsner was called down by his pathology professor, Dr. William Dock at Washington University in St. Louis, to show him a case, and he was told, ‘This is lung cancer, and you should take a look at it because you may never see another case like it again.’ Less than twenty years later, as a thoracic surgeon, he found himself pulling out cancerous lungs left and right, and he noticed that all of these had been veterans in World War I, all these were men, and men who had taken up smoking or had been smoking prior to World War I, when groups like the American Red Cross and ladies’ auxiliaries of medical institutions sent cartons of cigarettes to the boys overseas.”