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It has been 30 years since the surgeon general of the United States released the first report of the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. In each of the subsequent reports, cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States. A total of 418,690 deaths in the United States were attributed to smoking in 1990¹. That figure included approximately twice as many male as female smokers. Of the 2,148,000 U.S. residents who died in 1990, approximately half died of particular preventable causes² (Table 1). The prominence . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Human Costs of Tobacco Use

Cardiovascular Disease

Cancer

Lung Disease

Children and Adolescents

Women

Minorities

The Elderly

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