Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General

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DIANE Publishing, 1995 - Всего страниц: 703
Examines the developments over the past quarter century (1964-1988) in smoking prevalence and in mortality caused by smoking. Highlights important gains in preventing smoking and smoking-related disease, reviews changes in programs and policies designed to reduce smoking, and emphasizes sources of continuing concern and remaining challenges. Tables and figures. Bibliography. Glossary. Index.

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Стр. 609 - Formulary, or any supplement to any of them; and (2) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals; and (3) articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals...
Стр. 480 - SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking by Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth, And Low Birth Weight.
Стр. 445 - THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, AND THE AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION My name is Gregory N.
Стр. 175 - An attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence upon the individual's response to all objects and situations with which it is related
Стр. 677 - SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy.
Стр. 37 - Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer in men; the magnitude of the effect of cigarette smoking far outweighs all other factors. The data for women, though less extensive, point in the same direction.
Стр. 11 - Smoking remains the single most important preventable cause of death in our society.
Стр. 683 - US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. The Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction. A Report of the Surgeon General, 1988.
Стр. 6 - Cigarette smoking is the most likely cause of the recent world-wide increase in deaths from lung cancer . . . is an important predisposing cause of the development of chronic bronchitis . . . probably increases the risk of dying from coronary heart disease. ..has an adverse effect on healing of [gastric and duodenal] ulcers . . . [and] may be a contributing factor in cancer of the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, and bladder.
Стр. 7 - Cigarette smoking is the most important of the causes of chronic bronchitis in the United States and increases the risk of dying from chronic bronchitis.

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