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Four Major Conclusions of the 2004 Report
- Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and
reducing the health of smokers in general.
- Quitting smoking has immediate as well as long-term benefits, reducing risks
for diseases caused by smoking and improving health in general.
- Smoking cigarettes with lower machine-measured yields of tar and nicotine
provides no clear benefit to health.
- The list of diseases caused by smoking has been expanded to include
abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical
cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, and
stomach cancer. These are in addition to diseases previously known to be
caused by smoking, including bladder, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, and
throat cancers, chronic lung diseases, coronary heart and cardiovascular
diseases, as well as reproductive effects and sudden infant death syndrome.
Citation
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Health
Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004.
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and has negative
impacts on people at all stages of life. It harms unborn babies, infants,
children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.
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