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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2000;284:1366-1369.

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Chicago—A new Surgeon General's Report argues that smoking rates of United States teens and adults can be cut in half using techniques that are already available.

Surgeon General David Satcher released the report August 9 at a news conference held here at the 11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health. "This is the 28th Surgeon General's Report relating to tobacco, but the first looking at solutions," Satcher said.

According to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 24.7% of US adults smoked in 1997, nearly down to half of the 42% who smoked in 1965. The goal of Healthy People 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services' health promotion and disease prevention initiative, is to have only 12% of US adults smoking by the end of the decade. Satcher cited six evidence-based actions that could further reduce tobacco . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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