Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Tobacco Use
On January 11, 1964, Luther L. Terry, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States, released Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. This was the first in the series that is now generally referred to as the Surgeon General’s reports. Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General is the 34th tobacco-related Surgeon General’s report published since 1964. In 1990, the Surgeon General issued the first report that focused on the health benefits of smoking cessation. The 2020 report highlights the latest scientific evidence on the health benefits of quitting smoking, as well as proven treatments and strategies to help people successfully quit smoking.
Historical Surgeon General's Reports
- Square Icon2014—The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress
- Square Icon2012—Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults
- Square Icon2010—How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease
- Square Icon2006—The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke
- Square Icon2004—The Health Consequences of Smoking
- Square Icon2001—Women and Smoking
Page last reviewed: January 23, 2020
