...on health. The message of their Report, backed by extensive documentation, was unequivocal: tobacco is "a health hazard of sufficient importance in the...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action" (Foreword). The exhaustive report (387 pages of closely packed text and references, with innumerable...

...cancer in women, and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis. As well, the report stated that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant remedial action." The Committee based its conclusions on several thousand articles on smoking and health....

...the difference was unclear. The Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health concluded, "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient...the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action."2 Three decades later, almost everyone concedes that cigarette smoking is a serious health...

...presented the committee's findings to the American people: Cigarette smoking caused cancer and was "a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action."4 The only "remedial action" Congress took right away was to pass a law in 1965 that cigarette...

...available evidence. Their conclusions were included in the 1 964 Surgeon General's report which stated that 'cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action? Smoking in adults, measured as an average number of cigarettes smoked per year, began to decrease steadily...

...United States, was the 1964 Surgeon General's Report. The message it delivered was clear: '[Qigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action. As the warnings against smoking increased in number and intensity, so too did the efforts of the tobacco...

...lung cancer in women, and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis. The Committee stated that "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." What would constitute "appropriate remedial action" was left unspecified. But the release of the report...

...artery disease than nonsmoking men. At the conclusion of the report, the following statement was made: "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." Since the submission of this report, yearly per capita consumption of cigarettes has declined in the...

...lung cancer in women, and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis. The committee stated that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient...United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." In 1965, Congress passed legislation setting up the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health....

...some 29 case-control and seven cohort studies had been reported. The Surgeon General concluded that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient...the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action."41 Research continues on the health consequences of smoking. A substantial body of experimental...