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Smoking & Health Issues
Cigarette Smoking and Disease in Smokers
Philip Morris USA agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers. Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non-smokers. There is no safe cigarette.
Addiction
Philip Morris USA agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking is addictive. It can be very difficult to quit smoking, but this should not deter smokers who want to quit from trying to do so.
Quitting Smoking
To reduce the health effects of smoking, the best thing to do is to quit; public health authorities do not endorse either smoking fewer cigarettes or switching to lower-yield brands as a satisfactory way of reducing risk.
Low Tar Cigarettes
Smokers should not assume that lower-yielding brands are safe or safer than full-flavor brands. There is no safe cigarette.
Smoking and Pregnancy
Women who quit smoking before or during pregnancy reduce the risk of adverse reproductive outcomes.
Secondhand Smoke
Public health officials have concluded that secondhand smoke from cigarettes causes disease, including lung cancer and heart disease, in non-smoking adults, as well as causes conditions in children such as asthma, respiratory infections, cough, wheeze, otitis media (middle ear infection) and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Surgeon General Reports
The Surgeon General of the United States has been the nation's leading spokesperson on matters of public health since 1871. Beginning in 1962, at the request of President John F. Kennedy, the Surgeon General's Office took on the task of reviewing literature on smoking and health and began issuing periodic reports. The first report was published in 1964.
Links to Related Topics:
Youth Smoking Prevention
Parent Resource Center
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