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William L. Roper, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1991;266(22):3188-3189.

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Since the inception of the antitobacco movement in the late 1950s, national, state, and local public health campaigns have delayed an estimated three quarters of a million deaths from tobacco-related disease.¹ Although many lives have been saved, one in every five deaths in 1988 was smoking-related, and smoking directly caused 434 000 deaths in 1988.^2,3 It is amazing to think that each and every day, 1200 Americans— 50 each hour—lose their lives from preventable smoking-related diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease, and chronic obstructive lung disease.⁴

Tobacco, the plague of our time, brings forth the need for us to band together—together, we can ultimately save thousands of lives now held hostage by smoking.⁵ As a community of health professionals, our mission is to support the year 2000 health objectives⁶ and to acknowledge tobacco as the significant and far-reaching public health problem portrayed in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga.

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Reprint requests to the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control, Mail Stop K-50, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333 (Public Information Branch).

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