Smoking and Health

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service is a landmark report on the negative health effects of tobacco smoking, published on January 11, 1964, by the U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health.

Analyzing more than 7,000 scientific articles and papers, the report finds that smoking is linked to chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, and lung cancer. The release of the report was one of the top news stories of 1964, leading to policies that aimed to discourage smoking, such as the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 and the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969.

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