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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(2):86-87; doi:10.1093/jnci/djh030
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© 2004 Oxford University Press

EDITORIAL

Smoking Reduction and Tobacco-Related Cancers: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Scott J. Leischow, Mirjana V. Djordjevic

Affiliations of authors: Tobacco Control Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Correspondence to: Scott J. Leischow, PhD, Tobacco Control Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 (e-mail: SL83P@nih.gov)

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Forty years ago, on January 11, 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General released a report that officially recognized that smoking causes cancer and other diseases (1). Since the release of that seminal report, knowledge about tobacco use, addiction, and tobacco-related disease has increased dramatically. With this knowledge has come major public health improvements: The prevalence of tobacco use has been cut in half, the number of former smokers nearly equals the number of current smokers, and some gains have been achieved in reducing lung cancer incidence and mortality rates (2,3). However, it is clear that we have not solved the problems associated with tobacco use. Approximately 23% of adults in the U.S. currently smoke, almost twice the target goal of 12% . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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