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Tackling Tobacco in the 21st Century
Joseph K. Lim, MD
JAMA. 2000;283:2174.
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More than a decade has passed since former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop challenged this nation to create a smokeless America by the year 2000. While we have achieved small triumphs in decreasing smoking rates over the last 13 years, tobacco use remains by far the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States and worldwide. Each year smoking-related disease results in 430,700 deaths and $97.2 billion in health care costs and lost productivity in the United States.1 The Global Burden of Disease Study group predicts that annual tobacco-related deaths will increase from 3.0 million in 1990 to 8.4 million in 2020.2
Physicians who are in training bear special responsibility to fight tobacco use within their generation. Recent efforts by the American Medical Association Resident and Fellow Section (AMA-RFS), including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, have focused on prevention among adolescents at an age when . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Conn
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