Smoking and Health

For health effects of tobacco smoking, see Health effects of tobacco.

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service is a landmark report on the negative health effects of tobacco smoking, published on January 11, 1964, by the U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health.

Analyzing more than 7,000 scientific articles and papers, the report finds that smoking is linked to chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, and lung cancer.[1][2] The release of the report was one of the top news stories of 1964, leading to policies that aimed to discourage smoking, such as the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 and the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969.

  1. ^ Surgeon General of the United States (1964). Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States (PDF) (Report). Vol. Public Health Service Publication No. 1103. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Archived from the original on July 28, 2022.
  2. ^ LeMaistre, M. D.; Shopland, Donald R.; Farber, M. D.; Guthrie, M. D.; Hamill, M. D. (March 19, 2024). Clearing the Air: The Untold Story of the 1964 Report on Smoking and Health. University of California Health Humanities Press. ISBN 979-8-9899229-2-5.
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