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U.S. Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health: On 11 January, Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, released first report of the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. On the basis of over 7,000 articles on smoking and disease then available in the biomedical literature, the Committee concluded that cigarette smoking was: (1) a cause of lung cancer and laryngeal cancer in men; (2) a probably cause of lung cancer in women; and (3) the most important cause of chronic bronchitis (CDC, 2024).