Youth and Marketing
25 Years After the First Warning, Smoking Still Kills Nearly 400,000 Each Year
Abstract
Statement from the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society on the Surgeon General's report. Notes that while smoking over all is lower, children are smoking at a younger age, and more women are dying from lung cancer, and smoking among blue collar workers and minorities continues to be high. Discusses health consequences of smoking, anti-smoking efforts, and smoking related deaths.
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- Notes
Original document code was 5506.
- Company
- Non-Tobacco Company
- Minor Subject
- Anti-Smoking -groups
- Anti-Smoking -policies
- Anti-Smoking -programs
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke (Second-Hand Smoke) -health effects
- Health and Medical Research -diseases and conditions --cancer ---lung
- Health and Medical Research -diseases and conditions --cardiovascular disease
- Health and Medical Research -diseases and conditions --respiratory disease ---chronic bronchitis
- Health and Medical Research -diseases and conditions --respiratory disease --emphysema
- Surgeon General -report
- Youth (<18 years old) -smoking incidence
- Major Subject
- Anti-Smoking
- Surgeon General
- Author
- American, Cancer Society
- American, Heart Association
- American, Lung Association
- Maple, Diane
- Ponkshe, Prabhu
- Schellenbach, Joanne
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