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The discussion of the scientific evidence linking cancer to environmental and occupational exposures has been an area of contention for atleast the past three decades, since the assertion in 1977 by Higginson and Muir that 80% of all cancers were due to environmental exposures. Over the past three decades, there have been additional efforts to estimate the proportion of cancer due to these involuntary...