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Surgeon General Releases First Report Focused on Smoking Cessation in 30 Years

Surgeon General Releases First Report Focused on Smoking Cessation in 30 Years

Outlines the latest science to help people quit smoking cigarettes

Three decades after the first Surgeon General's report on smoking cessation, today, the Surgeon General is releasing a new report that reviews and updates evidence on the importance of quitting smoking. The report finds that more than two-thirds of U.S. adult cigarette smokers report interest in quitting cigarette smoking; and the majority of adult cigarette smokers in the United States have tried to quit during the past year. Read more...