I haven't been in here for a while but whilst catching up, this sentence pricked my memory.
There is a very long running BBC radio programme called "Desert Island Discs" in which they invite notable personages to tell of eight favourite pieces of music, which they play, interspersed with conversation.
One guest was the 83 year old Professor Sir Richard Doll who was one of two epidemiologists who as a young man first published proof of the correlation between smoking tobacco and lung cancer (circa 1953?). On this radio show in 2001 he upset many by saying "The effects of other people smoking in my presence is so small it doesn't worry me.”
More about this story
here and about the man
here.