The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General - Healthy People 2030

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Office of the Surgeon General, 2014

Last Reviewed: 2014

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup, Cancer Workgroup

This report is meant to speed up and sustain strategies that work to get rid of tobacco smoking. Strategies that support the goal of ending tobacco smoking include:

Hard-hitting advertising campaigns
Smoke-free air policies
Taxes on tobacco products set at the most effective levels
Accessible treatment to help people stop using tobacco
Far-reaching and fully funded statewide tobacco control programs

Objectives related to this resource (18)

Reduce the lung cancer death rate — C‑02

Improving

Reduce current tobacco use in adults — TU‑01

Improving

Reduce current cigarette smoking in adults — TU‑02

Improving

Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04

Getting worse

Reduce current e-cigarette use in adolescents — TU‑05

Little or no detectable change

Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06

Target met or exceeded

Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07

Improving

Reduce current use of flavored tobacco products in adolescents who use tobacco — TU‑09

Baseline only

Eliminate cigarette smoking initiation in adolescents and young adults — TU‑10

Improving

Increase past-year attempts to quit smoking in adults — TU‑11

Baseline only

Increase the proportion of adults who get advice to quit smoking from a health care provider — TU‑12

Baseline only

Increase successful quit attempts in adults who smoke — TU‑14

Baseline only

Increase the number of states, territories, and DC that prohibit smoking in worksites, restaurants, and bars — TU‑17

Little or no detectable change

Increase the proportion of smoke-free homes — TU‑18

Improving

Reduce the proportion of people who don't smoke but are exposed to secondhand smoke — TU‑19

Baseline only

Increase the national average tax on cigarettes — TU‑21

Improving

Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03

Improving

Eliminate policies in states, territories, and DC that preempt local tobacco control policies — TU‑20

Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General. (2014). The consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179276/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK179276.pdf