"Coffins of Black"

Noticings and Notes:
(After I wrote the word "noticings" above, I googled it to see if it was really a word recognized by an online dictionary.  I found this: http://noticin.gs/about which sounds really cool and I am sorry I missed.  I want to spend some time checking out the tag on Flickr, but not now.  There is work to do.)
Starting with a narrative is often a good idea.  Percivall Pott (2 l's, 2 t's) seems quite Dickensian to me as he is portrayed "sifting" through his observations.  (Oh, clever, clever Mukherjee.)

Potts-----carcinogens-----cancer is preventable

Hill----know your audience---choose the appropriate language to convey your message (ethos) so that your audience will be willing to listen

"When these soldiers returned from the war, they brought their habits, like viruses again, (or like metastases, Mr. Mukherjee? Probably not the apposite that virus is....) to their respective homelands with them" (240).




If you understood this section, then you can explain the reasons for the initial difficulty correlating the occurrence of cancer with tobacco.  You also understand the difference between establishing that correlation and the correlation of the chimney sweeps and scrotal cancer.

And what does that have to do with nylon stockings?