In 1964, the first Surgeon General's report on the effects of
smoking on health was released. In the nearly 50 years since,
extensive data from thousands of studies have consistently
substantiated the devastating effects of smoking on the lives of
millions of Americans. Now, this 2010 report of the Surgeon General
explains beyond a shadow of a doubt how tobacco smoke causes
disease, validates earlier findings, and expands and strengthens
the science base. Armed with this irrefutable data, the time has
come to mount a full-scale assault on the tobacco epidemic. More
than 1,000 people are killed every day by cigarettes, and one-half
of all long-term smokers are killed by smoking-related diseases. A
large proportion of these deaths are from early heart attacks,
chronic lung diseases, and cancers. Every year, thousands of
nonsmokers die from heart disease and lung cancer, and hundreds of
thousands of children suffer from respiratory infections because of
exposure to secondhand smoke. There is no risk-free level of
exposure to tobacco smoke, and there is no safe tobacco product.
This new Surgeon General's report describes in detail the ways
tobacco smoke damages every organ in the body and causes disease
and death. We must build on our successes and more effectively
educate people about the health risks of tobacco use, prevent youth
from ever using tobacco products, expand access to proven cessation
treatments and services, and reduce exposure to secondhand smoke.
Putting laws and other restrictions in place, including making
tobacco products progressively less affordable, will ultimately
lead to our goal of a healthier America by reducing the devastating
effects of smoking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other
federal agencies are diligently working toward this goal by
implementing and sup-porting policies and regulations that
strengthen our resolve to end the tobacco epidemic. CDC has
incorporated the World Health Organization's MPOWER approach into
its actions at the local, state, and national levels. MPOWER
consists of six key interventions proven to reduce tobacco use that
can prevent millions of deaths. CDC, along with federal, state, and
local partners, is committed to monitor-ing the tobacco epidemic
and prevention policies; protecting people from secondhand smoke
where they live, work, and play; offering quit assistance to
current smokers; warning about the dangers of tobacco; enforcing
comprehensive restrictions on tobacco advertising, promotion, and
sponsorship; and raising taxes and prices on tobacco products.In
2009, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was
enacted, giving FDA explicit regulatory authority over tobacco
products to protect and promote the health of the American public.
Among other things, this historic legislation gave the agency the
authority to require companies to reveal all of the ingredients in
tobacco products-including the amount of nicotine-and to prohibit
the sale of tobacco products labeled as "light," "mild," or "low."
Further, with this new regulatory mandate, FDA will regulate
tobacco advertising and require manufacturers to use more effective
warning labels, as well as restrict the access of young people to
their products. FDA will also assess and regulate modified risk
products, taking into account the impact their availability and
marketing has on initiation and cessation of tobacco use. This 2010
Surgeon General's report represents another important step in the
developing recognition, both in this nation and around the world,
that tobacco use is devastating to public health. Past investments
in research and in comprehensive tobacco control programs-combined
with the findings presented by this new report-provide the
foundation, evidence, and impetus to increase the urgency of our
actions to end the epidemic of tobacco use.
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