50th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health

50th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health

50th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health 01/11/2014 Fifty years ago today, Dr. Luther Terry released the landmark Surgeon General’s Report – the first of its kind on smoking and health – concluding that smoking causes lung cancer. In the five decades since, we’ve learned: that smoking damages nearly every organ in the body; it is responsible for an enormous burden of disease, death and economic cost in the United States; and, exposure to secondhand smoke can have devastating health consequences. Read more. Use this button to share this message with others:

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