Tobacco Prevention and Control
- Overview
- Statistics
- NCI Research on Tobacco Prevention and Control
- Tobacco Prevention and Control Plans and Reports
Tobacco and Cancer Information for Patients and Health
Professionals
Overview
Each year, more than 440,000 Americans die of tobacco-related disease, accounting for 1 in every 5 deaths. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 30% of cancer deaths annually in the United States.
According to the 2004 Surgeon General's Report, The Health Consequences of Smoking, tobacco causes an increasing number of deaths from cancers of particular concern to women, including lung, cervical, and ovarian. Scientific evidence also suggests a causal relationship between smoking and colorectal adenomatous polyps and colorectal cancer. Epidemiological studies exploring a possible link between smoking and breast cancer have yielded inconclusive results, although animal, human biomarker, and in vitro cellular studies strongly suggest that tobacco carcinogens may be involved in breast cancer development. Tobacco use also causes leukemia and cancers of the bladder, esophagus, kidney, larynx, oral cavity, pancreas, and stomach.
- Tobacco-Related Cancer Topic Search — Cancer Topic Searches are prepared literature searches from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Citations on a specific sub-category can be retrieved, or results limited by a date range.
Statistics
Statistics related to smoking and cancer
NCI Research on Tobacco Prevention and Control
Information about NCI-funded grants, clinical trials, and other programs and initiatives with components that primarily target tobacco prevention and control
- Progress in Research on Lung and Other Tobacco-Related Cancers (PDF - 1.44 MB) — Excerpt from the NCI Women's Health Report — 2007
- Low Socioeconomic Status Women and Girls Project
- Tobacco Prevention and Control Research Projects
- Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers
- Tobacco Control Research (Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences)
Tobacco Prevention and Control Plans and Reports
Reports on progress, gap areas, and recommended future directions in tobacco prevention and control research
- Progress in Research on Cancer Health Disparities (PDF - 1.44 MB) — Excerpt from the NCI Women's Health Report — 2007
- Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation, 2007 (Institute of Medicine)
- Cancer Trends Progress Report — 2007 Update: Adult Smoking
- Tobacco Control Policy and Low Socioeconomic Status Women and Girls — 2006
- NIH State of the Science Conference Statement on Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control — 2006 (PDF - 514 KB)
- NCI's Smoking and Tobacco Control Monographs
- U.S. Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Tobacco Use
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