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Addition of
Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking as a Nationally Notifiable ConditionJune 1996
The June 28,1996, issue of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR)
commemorates the 50th anniversary of the CDC and includes the recent historic decision by
the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) to designate the prevalence of
cigarette smoking as a notifiable condition for national public health surveillance. The
addition of the prevalence of cigarette smoking marks the first time that a behavior,
rather than a disease or illness, has been considered nationally reportable.
The action by the CSTE reported in the
article, "Addition of Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking as a Nationally Notifiable
Condition- June 1996," underscores the role of tobacco use as the leading preventable
cause of death in the United States.
- This historic step in public health surveillance underscores the need to
conduct national public health surveillance for both conventional disease outcomes and the
behaviors that cause them.
- The addition of cigarette smoking as a reportable condition reflects the
change from infectious to chronic diseases as the leading causes of morbidity and
mortality in the United States.
- The surveillance process will help guide and evaluate public health efforts
to reduce smoking.
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