Cigarette Smoking: Health Risks and How to Quit (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (04/12/2018)

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Evidence of Benefit

Added American Cancer Society as reference 1.

Revised text to state that cigarette smoking prevalence among male and female high school students increased substantially during the early 1990s in all ethnic groups, but in 2016, it declined to 8%.

Revised text to state that among men, the average annual age-adjusted lung cancer death rates from 2010 to 2014 were highest in Kentucky, where 25% of men were current smokers in 2016, and lowest in Utah, where only 10.5% of men smoked; among women, lung cancer death rates were highest in Kentucky, where 24% of women were current smokers, and lowest in Utah, where only 7.1% of women smoked (cited Schoenborn et al. as reference 18).

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