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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(8):660-661; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.8.660
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 8, 660-661, April 21, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

EDITORIAL

The End of the "Tobacco and Cancer" Century

Howard K. Koh

Correspondence to: Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H., Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 250 Washington St., Boston, MA 02108-4619.

Envision our society without tobacco addiction: cleaner lungs breathing cleaner air and rare, if any, lung cancer; heart disease deaths plummeting to a shadow of their current level and virtually no emphysema; and children having a fighting chance to reach their full potential for health.

Contrast that dream with the current nightmare we have come to endure as our national cancer profile. Tobacco, packaged in all its different shapes and sizes, has condemned our nation to a grimy sea of preventable cancer. As a society, we have been forced to accept the unacceptable and to tolerate the intolerable. The exhaustive annual report to the nation by Wingo et al. (1) in this issue of the Journal documents again that lung cancer, whose meteoric rise was triggered by the introduction . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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