US surgeon general links more diseases to smoking

WASHINGTON: A new report by the United States (US) surgeon general significantly expanded the list of illnesses caused by smoking, calling for “increased and sustained action” to reduce tobacco use and save lives.

The new report, titled The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General, came a half century after the historic 1964 surgeon general’s report, which made clear that smoking causes lung cancer. It declared that evidence has linked smoking to diseases of nearly all organs of the body.