Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General, The

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Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General, The

by: Frieden, Thomas R.; Lushniak, Boris D.; Sebelius, Kathleen

Publication date: 2014

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: substance use disorders,chemical dependency,cigarette smoking,nicotine,health,health care,medicine,medical complications,policy,federal regulations,government,statistics,study,research,epidemiology,economy,high risk,history,science,society,fetal,physiology,death,youth,adult

Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Collection: salis;americana

Language: English

Item Size: 785.5M

978 pages. Includes index and bibliographic references. Surgeon General's Reports series. The first Surgeon General's Report on the health consequences of smoking was released in 1964.
This 2014 report is divided into three sections.
*Section 1 "Historical perspective, overview, and conclusions" provides an overall summary of the report and its conclusions. It also provides a summary of the history of this series of reports, moving from their origins in 1964 to the present, contrasting what we knew in 1964 with what we know now in 2014.

*Section 2 "The Health Consequences of Active and Passive Smoking: The Evidence in 2014" provides a direct link to the 1964 report, which addressed the health effects of active smoking only. The first chapter in this section gives a 50-year perspective on the identification of the health consequences of active smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke. The other chapters in this section provide updates on critical topics and on topics for which the evidence has advanced, since the previous reviews in the 2004 and 2006 Surgeon General's reports. Active smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke are covered in the same chapters.

*Section 3 "Tracking and Ending the Epidemic" includes a descriptive chapter on the patterns of smoking, a chapter on the impact of the tobacco control environment on smoking since 1964, and additional chapters providing estimates of premature deaths that are avoidable.

*The final chapter "A Vision for the Ending the Tobacco Epidemic" outlines broad strategies and potential courses of action for tobacco control in the future.
Each section within the chapters on the health consequences of smoking is accompanied by evidence tables detailing the studies that were used to evaluate the evidence to assess causality.