Editing Hans Eysenck (section)

===Cancer-prone personality===
Eysenck also received funding for consultation research via the New York legal firm Jacob & Medinger, which was acting on behalf of the tobacco industry. In a talk<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/K9pyS7EGCV8 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200525031244/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pyS7EGCV8&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|title=Hans Eysenck (1994) personality and cancer lecture| date=13 September 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pyS7EGCV8|language=en|access-date=2020-01-30}}{{cbignore}}</ref> given in 1994 he mentioned that he asked [[R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company|Reynolds]] for funding to continue research. Asked what he felt about tobacco industry lawyers being involved in selecting scientists for research projects, he said that research should be judged on its quality, not on who paid for it, adding that he had not personally profited from the funds.<ref>Example document here [http://tobaccodocuments.org/bliley_lor/03747086-7087.html "Memorandum Regarding Professor Eysenck's Research Progress".] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112113429/http://tobaccodocuments.org/bliley_lor/03747086-7087.html |date=12 January 2012}}</ref> According to ''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper, Eysenck received more than £800,000 in this way.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/eysenck-took-pounds-800000-tobacco-funds-1361007.html Peter pringle, "Eysenck took pounds 800,000 tobacco funds", ''The Independent'', 31 October 1996.]</ref> Eysenck conducted many studies making claims about the role of personality in cigarette smoking and disease,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eysenck |first1=H. J. |last2=Tarrant |first2=Mollie |last3=Woolf |first3=Myra |last4=England |first4=L. |title=Smoking and Personality |journal=British Medical Journal |date=14 May 1960 |volume=1 |issue=5184 |pages=1456–1460 |doi=10.1136/bmj.1.5184.1456 |pmid=13821141 |pmc=1967328 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eysenck |first1=H.J. |title=Personality and cigarette smoking |journal=Life Sciences |date=July 1964 |volume=3 |issue=7 |pages=777–792 |doi=10.1016/0024-3205(64)90033-5 |pmid=14203979 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eysenck |first1=H.J. |title=The respective importance of personality, cigarette smoking and interaction effects for the genesis of cancer and coronary heart disease |journal=Personality and Individual Differences |date=1988 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=453–464 |doi=10.1016/0191-8869(88)90123-7 }}</ref> but he also said "I have no doubt, smoking is not a healthy habit."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Buchanan |first1=Roderick D. |title=Playing with Fire: The Controversial Career of Hans J. Eysenck |date=2010 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-856688-5 |page=376 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOoX7fBWY-oC&pg=PA376 }}</ref>

His article "Cancer, personality and stress: Prediction and prevention"<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eysenck |first1=H.J. |title=Cancer, personality and stress: Prediction and prevention |journal=Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy |date=January 1994 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=167–215 |doi=10.1016/0146-6402(94)00001-8 }}</ref> defines Cancer-prone (Type C) personality. The science behind this claim has now come under public scrutiny in the 2019 King's College London enquiry (see below).