Peter Lee has been an independent consultant in Medical Statistics and Epidemiology since 1979. He previously worked since 1966 for the Tobacco Research Council as Statistician and Research Coordinator, having gained a BA from Exeter College, Oxford University where he read Mathematics and Postgraduate Statistics from 1962 to 1965. He has worked as a consultant to various tobacco, pharmaceutical and chemical companies, though recently has restricted attention to tobacco. Together with his long-term colleagues Francis Roe, John Fry, Barbara Forey, Katharine Coombs, Jan and John Hamlling and Alison Thornton, he has published almost 300 papers and letters, with many relating a range of diseases to smoking, environmental tobacco smoke and smokeless tobacco. Many of his recent papers describe systematic reviews and meta-analyses, including one of the relationship between smoking and lung cancer based on the available evidence published in the 20th century. He has been involved in the publication of International Smoking Statistics, and in the development of software for processing and statistically analyzing animal pathology data, conducting meta-analyses, and predicting the long-term effects of introducing new tobacco products. His hobbies include playing chess and bridge, and he is the only person to have won the British Chess Championship (in 1965 when aged 21) and the Gold Cup, the major British bridge championship (in 2002 and 2010, when aged 60 and 68). He married Margaret in 1968, and has one daughter, Katharine Coombs.