PHA-Exchange> Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking

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The Health Consequences of Smoking

A Report of the US Surgeon General
U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
May 2004
Website: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov./library/smokingconsequences/
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"........Published 40 years after the surgeon general's first report on
smoking -- which concluded that smoking was a definite cause of three
serious diseases -- this newest report finds that cigarette smoking is
conclusively linked to diseases such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia
and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach.

According to the report, smoking kills an estimated 440,000 Americans
each year. On average, men who smoke cut their lives short by 13.2
years, and female smokers lose 14.5 years. The economic toll exceeds
$157 billion each year in the United States -- $75 billion in direct
medical costs and $82 billion in lost productivity.

*       Press Release
<http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2004pres/20040527a.html> 
          
*       Remarks by the Surgeon General
<http://www.surgeongeneral.gov./news/speeches/SgrSmoking_05272004.htm>
at the Launch of the Report - Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona,
          
*       Message from the Secretary
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/pdf/message.pdf>  - A one-page
message from Secretary Tommy G. Thompson [
        PDF 8 KB]
          
*       Executive Summary
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/pdf/executivesummary.pdf>  -
The executive summary version of the report is a technical publication
that includes excerpts from the complete report. [PDF 51 KB]
          
*       Chapters <http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/chapters.htm>
- Contains PDF versions of the eight chapters plus the foreword,
preface, contents, acknowledgments and index.
          
*       Fact Sheets
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/Factsheets.htm>  - Eleven fact
sheets in HTML and PDF format.
          
*       Health Consequences of Smoking - Database
<http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/sgr> 
        This Web site serves as an interactive component of the 2004
Surgeon General's Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking. The
database includes abstracts of more than 1,600 key articles cited in the
2004 Surgeon General's Report.
          
*       What The Surgeon General's Report Means to You
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/consumerpiece/index.htm>  -
This booklet explains the report and how smoking causes disease in
nearly every organ of the body. [PDF 1.19 MB
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/consumerpiece/SGR2004_Whatitmea
nstoyou.pdf> ]
          
*       The Health Consequences of Smoking on The Body
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/sgranimation/flash/index.html>
- This interactive animation outlines the effects of smoking on the
different organs of the body based on the findings of the 2004 Surgeon
General's Report. It is available in Flash
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/sgranimation/flash/index.html>
and HTML
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/sgranimation/index.html> . 
          
*       Cancer in the Family Video Link
<http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/VNR/index.htm>  - (streaming
video format) Video News Release and Transcript
        You will need Real Player
<http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/shared/realplayer.htm>  (r) to view this
video.
          
*       U.S. Public Health Service Tobacco Cessation Guideline
<http://www.surgeongeneral.gov./tobacco>  - The latest drugs and
counseling techniques for treating tobacco use and dependence.
          
*       Cigarette labeling requirements
<http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title15/chapter36_.html>  under the
U.S. Code 

 


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