print email comment close The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General URL: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/smokingconsequences/ Description: Full text of the May 2004 report from U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona on smoking and health, which reveals "for the first time that smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the body. ... [It] finds that cigarette smoking is conclusively linked to diseases such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach." Includes links to related government resources on smoking. Publisher: U.S. Office of the Surgeon General Library of Congress Subject Headings: Smoking -- Health aspects Tobacco LII Database Information: Record 14016 created by Jennifer English on 05/31/2004 Last modification on 06/02/2004 Published: 05/31/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14016