How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-attributable Disease : a Report of the Surgeon General
- ISBN-10
- 0160840783
- ISBN-13
- 9780160840784
- Pages
- 704
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General
Description
In 1964, the first Surgeon General's report on the effects of smoking on health was released. In the nearly 50 years since, extensive data from thousands of studies have consistently substantiated the devastating effects of smoking on the lives of millions of Americans. Yet today in the United States, tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease for both men and women. Now, this 2010 report of the Surgeon General explains beyond a shadow of a doubt how tobacco smoke causes disease, validates earlier findings, and expands and strengthens the science base. Armed with this irrefutable data, the time has come to mount a full-scale assault on the tobacco epidemic. More than 1,000 people are killed every day by cigarettes, and one-half of all long-term smokers are killed by smoking-related diseases. A large proportion of these deaths are from early heart attacks, chronic lung diseases, and cancers.
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