Let's Make The Next Generation Tobacco-Free: Your Guide To The 50th Anniversary Surgeon General\'S Report On Smoking And Health

by Health and Human Services Department (Editor)

Overview

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This easy-to-read, illustrated booklet summarizes the 32nd Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health, released in January 2014, the 50th anniversary of the first Report. The booklet discusses, in plain language:

• historical information on changes in smoking norms since the first Surgeon General’s Report was released fifty years ago in January 1964;
• new health findings on diseases and conditions caused or affected by smoking;
• and ways to reduce smoking and its resulting health and financial impact.

It is designed to give concerned adults information to help them make choices that will improve their own health and the health of their children, their families, and their communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780160922664
Publisher:	United States Government Printing Office
Publication date:	03/24/2014
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.23(w) x 6.16(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

 CONTENTS

1-- A PERSISTENT EPIDEMIC
Introduction
The Killer Cigarette
The Power of Nicotine Addiction

2-- DISEASES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS LINKED TO SMOKING
Cancer Trigger
Breath Blocker
Heart Stopper
Smoking and Reproduction
Smoking and Diabetes
Smoking and the Immune System
Smoking and Eye Disease

3--THE NEXT 50 YEARS
Saving Millions of Lives
Ending the Tobacco Use Epidemic

Interviews

This guide is appropriate for educators, health-care providers, parents, clinical professionals and teens that can provide guidance on the effects of smoking and nicotine addiction resulting in serious disease.   The guide is equipped with free resources available for these populations to help others quit smoking and to explain the lifelong health benefits by saying NO to tobacco use.