U.S. Surgeon General

Th ese incidents compelled the U.S. Surgeon General to investigate the health effects of TEL. The industry itself moved rapidly to deal with the crisis by instituting a series of safety measures. Now, ethyl fluid was blended at distribution centers and not at seiMce stations (it had been done on the spot and increased the chances of lead poisoning to seiMce sta-... 

A report by U.S. surgeon general Luther Terry definitively links smoking with cancer and other serious diseases. 

Many prominent people and organizations have supported the legalization of medical marijuana, including the American Public Health Association, former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, national associations of prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys, and the editorial boards of numerous newspapers, among others. Public opinion polls conducted by TIME/CNN in October 2002 report that approximately 80 percent of the American public supports patient access... 

Among the alkaloids are some well-known (and dangerous) compounds. Nicotine is an agent in tobacco that has been described as one of the most toxic of all poisons and (it) acts with great rapidity. 13 In 1988, the U.S. Surgeon General declared nicotine to be an addictive substance. Nicotine is metabolized to cotinine and iran.v-3 -hydroxycotinine,... 

The U.S. Surgeon General declared that ensuring that treatments were available (minus problems of access) for patients with depression was a more significant problem than developing more efficacious treatment. 

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In the late 1960s, testifying before Congress, U.S. Surgeon General William T. Stewart claimed victory in the war against infectious diseases. Stewart, along with other members of the medical and scientific communities, believed that there had been a transition in which infectious disease had waned and chronic disease had become the dominant cause of morbidity and mortality in the modern age (Fauci, 2001). 

All these statistics were part of the U.S. Surgeon General s report in 1990.1 can add from personal experience and from what I ve learned from others that you ll sleep more soundly, wake more rested, have more energy, and just feel better in general. 

Although it is well known that a high-fat diet can cause many chronic health problems, what is perhaps less well known is that low- or no-fat diets bring their own set of problems. Nutrition professionals encourage people to select diets low in total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Surgeon General, American Heart Association, National Cholesterol Education Program, American Cancer Society, American Dietetic Association, National... 

The prevalence of smoking among U.S. adults began to decline in 1965 and continued on that trend for the rest of the 20th century. A major reduction in the number of current smokers and an increase in the number of former smokers seem to be related to the U.S. Surgeon General s 1964 report, and subsequent... 

Nicotine induces physical dependence. In 1988, the U.S. Surgeon General s Office issued a report with the conclusion that nicotine is a physically addicting drug. 

Acidity plays a significant role in the progression of osteoporosis, a disease that currently affects more than 25 million Americans, 80 percent of whom are women. Bone fractures are common in people suffering from osteoporosis, and more than 20,000 people die every year as a result of hip fractures.24 By 2020, one in two Americans older than 50 will be at risk for fractures from osteoporosis or low bone mass, according to the U.S. Surgeon General.25... 

This raises the question "How much alcohol can a pregnant woman safely drink " As we have seen, the severity of the symptoms seems to increase with the amount of alcohol consumed by the mother. However, it is virtually impossible to do the scientific studies that would conclusively determine the risk to the fetus caused by different amounts of alcohol. There is some evidence that suggests that there is a risk associated with drinking even one ounce of absolute (100%) alcohol each day. Because of these facts and uncertainties, the American Medical Association and the U.S. Surgeon General recommend that pregnant women completely abstain from alcohol. 

By year-end 1963, ninety-one of the ninety-seven PAHs identified in MSS were reported in the published literature. Six PAHs, identified in MSS by Rodgman and Cook (3273), had not been reported publicly at that time. However, by 1970, identification in MSS of all but one (cholanthrene) of the ninety-seven had been reported. Despite the availability of such information, only eighteen MSS PAHs were discussed by the Advisory Committee in its 1964 Report to the U.S. Surgeon General, thirteen as mainstream CSC components and five as carbon black components (3999). The detailed discussion of so few MSS PAHs and citation of so few publications were done despite the fact the committee had been provided with a detailed Philip Morris monograph on tobacco and smoke composition, a monograph that listed sixty-one PAHs identified in tobacco smoke plus many pertinent published references to them (2939, 3262). The Advisory Committee did note, however, that twenty-seven other nontumorigenic PAHs—none specifically named—had been identified in tobacco smoke. The twenty-seven unnamed PAHs had to include several of those PAHs, for example, naphthalene. 

On several occasions, the U.S. Surgeon General in his periodic reports on smoking and health discussed the relationship between the levels of PAHs in cigarette smoke, their tumorigenic potency to mouse skin, and the observed biological response with CSC in mouse skin-painting bioassays. 

The U.S. Surgeon General (4003) classified formaldehyde as a suspected contributor to the health hazard of smoking snf acrolein (propenal) as a probable health hazard in cigarette smoke. 

U.S. Surgeon General (4005) reported acrolein (propenal) to be one of the major toxic agents in the vapor phase of unaged cigarette MSS. 

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