Smoking: Habit Persists Despite '64 Report. Peggy Peck and Edward Susman.
by Peck, Peggy; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 4Health. Publisher: UPI, 2004ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Antismoking movement | Health risk assessment | Passive smoking | Smoking | Smoking -- Law and legislation | Smoking cessation programs | Tobacco habit | U.S. Surgeon-General's OfficeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Cigarettes remain the world's most effective weapon of mass destruction. In the United States alone, directly and indirectly, cigarette smoking kills more than 10 times as many people per year as highway crashes. Yet smoking's ravages would be much worse today [2004] had the dangers of the habit not been exposed 40 years ago." (UPI) This article discusses the 1964 report by U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry linking smoking to lung cancer and examines other problems caused by smoking.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Smoking: Habit Persists Despite '64 Report, Jan. 30, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Cigarettes remain the world's most effective weapon of mass destruction. In the United States alone, directly and indirectly, cigarette smoking kills more than 10 times as many people per year as highway crashes. Yet smoking's ravages would be much worse today [2004] had the dangers of the habit not been exposed 40 years ago." (UPI) This article discusses the 1964 report by U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry linking smoking to lung cancer and examines other problems caused by smoking.
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