Health Warnings, Smoking, and Cancer
- 26 November 1992
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 327 (22) , 1604-1607
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199211263272219
Abstract
The figures have become familiar. Tobacco use has been declared "the single most important preventable cause of [premature] death in the United States, accounting for one of every six deaths, or some 390,000 deaths annually."1 The health goals of the nation for the year 2000 call for reducing the prevalence of cigarette smoking to 15 percent among adults (a 48 percent decrease from the current 29 percent) and reducing the rate of beginning smoking among teenagers to 15 percent (a 50 percent decrease from the current rate of 30 percent).2 The goal of reducing smoking in the United States is . . .Keywords
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