Redoubling Efforts to Help Americans Quit Smoking — Federal Initiatives to Tackle the Country’s Long
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Robert
R. Redfield, M.D., Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., and Norman E. Sharpless, M.D.
Redoubling Efforts to
Help Americans Quit Smoking — Federal Initiatives to Tackle the Country’s
Longest-Running Epidemic.
N Engl J Med 2020; 383:1606-1609 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2003255
The rate of cigarette smoking among U.S. adults is 13.7%, its lowest point
since monitoring of smoking rates began in 1965, yet smoking remains the
country’s leading preventable cause of death and disease, and it costs the
United States more than $300 billion annually. Increasing smoking-cessation
rates among adults is the fastest way to reduce this health and economic
burden. As leaders of three of the federal agencies responsible for reducing
tobacco-product use, we are committed to intensifying efforts to help Americans
quit smoking.
The commentary is available online at http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003255
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