A1.5 Major reviews on smoking and health

Reports of the US Surgeon General

The first report of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health was published in 1964. To date, 35 reports on the health consequences of smoking have been released.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/index.htm

Featured reports of the US Surgeon General include:

• Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities
• Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General
• E-cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A report of the Surgeon General
• The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress
• Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults
• How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioural Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease
• The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke

National Cancer Institute's Tobacco Control Monograph Series

A series of comprehensive scientific reviews on tobacco use, treatment, and prevention to inform the work of researchers, clinicians and public health professionals.
https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/tcrb/monographs

International Agency for Research on Cancer

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is a specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organization that prduces and publishes monograph series, scientific papers, and cancer prevention handbooks.
https://www.iarc.who.int/

• IARC Monographs, including:
  • Tobacco Smoke and Involuntary Smoking, IARC Monographs Volume 83
  • Smokeless Tobacco and Some Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines, IARC Monographs Volume 89
• IARC Scientific Papers, including:
  • Tobacco: A Major International Health Hazard, IARC Scientific Publication No. 74
• IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, including:
  • Effectiveness of Tax and Price Policies for Tobacco Control
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Smoke-free Policies
  • Methods for Evaluating Tobacco Control Policies
  • Tobacco Control: Reversal of Risk after Quitting Smoking

California Environmental Protection Agency's Report on the Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Describes the public’s exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and its adverse effects on human health.
https://oehha.ca.gov/air/report/health-effects-exposure-environmental-tobacco-smoke-final-report