Surgeon General's Reports

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• The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke (2006)
• The Health Consequences of Smoking (2004)
• Women and Smoking (2001)

Other Important Federal Resources on Smoking:

Publications

1.   How Do We Conclude That Smoking is a Cause of Disease? - This supplement to the 2004 Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking discusses how the conclusions and recommendations of the report are made.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/10.htm

2.   How Smoking Harms People of All Ages - This fact sheet is a supplement to the 2004 Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking. It provides general information on how smoking affects the body.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/7.htm

3.   Smoking Among Adults in the United States: Cancer - This fact sheet was created to supplement the 2004 Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking. It provides information on how certain cancers are related to smoking and what the affects are.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/2.htm

4.   Smoking Among Adults in the United States: Respiratory Health - This fact sheet supplements the Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking. It provides facts on how smoking negatively affects respiratory health.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/4.htm

5.   Smoking Among Adults: Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke - This supplement to the 2004 Surgeon General's Report on the health consequences of smoking provides information on how heart disease and stroke are related to smoking.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/3.htm

6.   Smoking Among Adults: Other Health Effects - This fact sheet supplements the 2004 Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking. It provides information on some of the health effects of smoking such as work absences, health care costs, and other diseases or complications.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/8.htm

7.   Smoking Among Adults: Reproductive Health - This supplement to the Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking provides information on how smoking affects both men's and women's reproductive health.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/5.htm

8.   Smoking Among Seniors in the United States - This supplement to the Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking explains how smoking can negatively affect the health of older adults.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/6.htm

9.     The 2004 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health: What it Means to You - This report, written for the general population, explains the main points of the 2004 Surgeon General's report on smoking and health.

   http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/00_pdfs/SGR2004_Whatitmeanstoyou.pdf...

10.   The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General - This web site provides links to the Surgeon General's report on secondhand smoke, information about this report, and fact sheets about the effects of secondhand smoke.

    http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/

11.   The Health Consequences of Smoking: Impact on Unborn Babies, Infants, Children, and Adolescents - This fact sheet briefly describes how a mother's smoking can affect babies and children and links to other fact sheet summaries of Surgeon General reports.

    http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/1.htm

12.     Tobacco Control Policies- Do They Make a Difference for Low Socioeconomic Status Women and Girls? Executive Summary (PDF – 8.2MB) - This Executive Summary highlights recommendations detailed in the report, Tobacco Control Policies: Do They Make a Difference for Low SES Women and Girls? The recommendations were developed by researchers, practitioners, and advocates who attended the 2005 meeting and consist of overarching methodological and measurement recommendations and other research actions that will increase our knowledge of how to reduce tobacco use among low SES women and girls.

    http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/ses_women-girls_project/LowSES22807.pdf

13. The Health Consequences of Smoking: Four Major Conclusions of the 2004 Report - This fact sheet lists the four major points of the 2004 Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking.

    http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/highlights/9.htm

Organizations

1.   Office of the Surgeon General, OS, HHS
2.   Office on Smoking and Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, HHS

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Content last updated March 19, 2008.