Burney, Leroy Edgar

Burney, Leroy Edgar
▪ 1999

      American physician who, as surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service from 1956 to 1961, became the first federal official to name smoking as a cause of lung cancer (b. Dec. 31, 1906, Burney, Ind.—d. July 31, 1998, Arlington Heights, Ill.).

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