Surgeon General's Report Summary

Dear Colleagues,

The 2014 Surgeon General’s report “The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress” was released Friday at a White House press conference. Since we send out Quittin’ Time on Friday I didn’t want to overload your inbox. But, in case you haven’t had time to review the report findings and recommendations yet, they are provided below. I found most striking that:

• Smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 premature deaths annually among Americans 35 years of age and older
 • 20 million Americans died prematurely from smoking since the first SG report in 1964
• 2.5 million nonsmoking Americans died from exposure to secondhand smoke during that time period
• 5.6 million of today’s children will ultimately die early from smoking according to present estimates
• 3,200 children younger than the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette every day in the US
• The estimated costs attributable to smok¬ing and exposure to tobacco smoke now approach $300 billion annually

David Zauche Senior Program Officer Partnership for Prevention Washington, DC 20036

ActionTo Quit Update

Posted by ActionTo Quit and reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com

Is the summer truth tour coming to a state near you? Probably.    truth^® is the largest national youth smoking prevention campaign and the only national campaign not directed by the tobacco industry.

The World Health Organization has developed a training package on strengthening health systems for treating tobacco dependence in primary care. This article describes the new initiative and the training materials are available HERE.
 

David Zauche, Senior Program Officer

Partnership for Prevention

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