Article Excerpt: Fifty-two years ago, the first Surgeon General’s Report Smoking and Health was released, and it proved to be possibly the single most import publication in the history of public health. The findings in that report, about cigarettes and lung cancer risk, ushered in a new era of scientifically informed public awareness about the dangers of smoking, and began the downward trend in adverse health outcomes from tobacco that continues to this day. Smoking rates have been reduced by more than half since then; by one estimate, 795,000 deaths were prevented between 1965 and 2000 as a result of tobacco control programs inspired by that first Surgeon General’s Report.
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