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The Health Consequences of Smoking: Cancer a Report of the Surgeon General
Abstract
Surgeon General's Report on the Health Consequences of Smoking, from 1982. Charts the dramatic increase in lung cancer rates for both men and women from 1950-1977. Estimates health cost of lung cancer in 1975 at 3.8 billion in lost earnings, 379.5 million in short-term hospital charges. Attributes approximately 85% of US lung cancer deaths in 1978 to smoking.
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Original document code was 358.
- Company
- Non-Tobacco Company
- Minor Subject
- Health and Medical Research -diseases and conditions --cancer ---lung
- Smoking and Health Controversy
- Surgeon General -report
- Major Subject
- Smoking and Health Controversy
- Surgeon General
- Author
- Surgeon, General
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