Medical views in the United States on the effects of smoking have shifted dramatically since
the published evidence in 1958 established the link between smoking and fatal disease …

Physicians play critical roles in efforts to encourage nonsmoking, both in their individual
interventions with smokers and in their contributions to broader political, educational, and …

THE UNITED STATES produces more than two billion pounds of tobacco each year. This
tobacco is converted into 600 billion cigarettes, with the United States' annual per capita …

Like other chronic conditions, nicotine dependence offers both challenges and rewards to
clinicians. The treatment of this condition frequently requires experience in pharmacology …

Most people know that smoking is a health hazard. Physicians are in a unique position to
motivate patients to give up this habit; furthermore, they can time their approach for when …

Although smoking cessation is clearly beneficial, many smokers respond poorly to smoking
cessation efforts with rather disappointing overall success rate of long-term abstinence. The …

Cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of illness and death in the United
States, responsible for 390,000, or one sixth, of all deaths. Although smoking prevalence …

Physicians have many opportunities to facilitate smoking cessation among individual
patients, and this could be complemented by efforts to curb smoking at the community level …

The multifaceted nature of smoking includes its physiologic, social, and psychologic
dimensions and its career features. It develops over time, through phases such as …

Despite decades of coaxing, American clinicians in large numbers continue to neglect the
leading preventable cause of illness and death in our societytobacco use. Fewer than 60 …