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Surgeon฀General฀report฀says฀5.6฀million฀U.S.฀children
will฀die฀prematurely฀unless฀current฀smoking฀rates฀drop
Report also finds
cigarette smoking
causes diabetes and
colorectal cancer
Approximately 5.6 million Ameri-
can children alive today – or one out of
every 13 children under age 18 – will die
prematurely from smoking-related dis-
eases unless current smoking rates drop,
according to the Surgeon General’s report
released earlier this year.
Over the last 50 years, more than
20 million Americans have died from
smoking. The new report concludes
that cigarette smoking kills nearly half a
million Americans a year, with an addi-
tional 16 million suffering from smoking-
related conditions.
The report puts the price tag of smok-
ing in this country at more than $289
billion a year in direct medical care and
other economic costs.
The report, The Health Consequences
of Smoking – 50 Years of Progress: A
Report of the Surgeon General, comes a
half century after the historic 1964 Sur-
geon General’s report, which concluded
that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer.
Since that time, smoking has been iden-
tified as a cause of serious diseases of
nearly all the body’s organs.
Today, scientists add diabetes, colorec-
tal and liver cancer, rheumatoid arthritis,
erectile dysfunction, age-related macular
degeneration and other conditions to the
list of diseases that cigarette smoking
causes. In addition, the report concludes
that secondhand smoke exposure is now
known to cause strokes in nonsmokers.
“Smokers today have a greater risk of
developing lung cancer than they did when
the first Surgeon General’s report was
released in 1964, even though they smoke
fewer cigarettes,” said Acting Surgeon
General Boris Lushniak, MD, MPH. “How
cigarettes are made and the chemicals they
contain have changed over the years and
some of those changes may be a factor in
higher lung cancer risks. Of all forms of
tobacco, cigarettes are the most deadly –
and cause medical and financial burdens
for millions of Americans.”
Twenty years ago, male smokers were
about twice as likely as female smokers
to die early from smoking-related disease.
The new report finds that women are now
dying at rates as high as men from many
of these diseases, including lung cancer,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) and heart disease. In fact, death
from COPD is now greater in women
than in men.
“Today, we’re asking Americans to
join a sustained effort to make the next
generation a tobacco-free generation,”
said then Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “This is not
something the federal government can do
alone. We need to partner with the busi-
ness community, local elected officials,
schools and universities, the medical
community, the faith community and
committed citizens in communities across
the country to make the next generation
tobacco free.”
CEDARR
COMMUNITY EFFORTS DEMONSTRATING THE
ABILITY TO REBUILD AND RESTORE
Mission Statement: Working together as a whole community, we
will utilize our resources to eradicate and prevent the use of all illegal
drugs, underage drinking and abusive use of alcohol, delinquency,
and community violence.
Open Invitation!! We Need Your Voice!!!
SECOND THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH
Although youth smoking rates
declined by half between 1997 and 2011,
each day another 3,200 children under age
18 smoke their first cigarette and another
2,100 youth and young adults become
daily smokers.
Every adult who dies prematurely
from smoking is replaced by two youth
and young adult smokers.
The report concludes that the tobacco
industry started and sustained this epi-
demic using aggressive marketing strate-
gies to deliberately mislead the public
about the harms of smoking. The evidence
in the report emphasizes the need to
accelerate and sustain successful tobacco
control efforts that have been under way
for decades.
“Over the last 50 years, tobacco
control efforts have saved 8 million lives
but the job is far from over,” said HHS
Assistant Secretary for Health Howard
K. Koh, MD, MPH. “This report provides
the impetus to accelerate public health and
clinical strategies to drop overall smoking
rates to less than 10 percent in the next
decade. Our nation is now at a crossroads
and we must choose to end the tobacco
epidemic once and for all.”
The Obama administration’s on-
going efforts to end the tobacco epidemic
include enactment of the landmark Family
Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control
Act, which gives FDA (Food and Drug
Administration) regulatory authority over
tobacco products; significant expansion of
tobacco cessation coverage through the
Affordable Care Act to help encourage
and support quitting; new Affordable Care
Act investments in tobacco prevention
campaigns like the Tips from Former
Smokers campaign to raise awareness of
the long-term health effects of smoking
and encourage quitting; and increases
in the cost of cigarettes resulting from
the federal excise tax increase in the
Children’s Health Insurance Program
Reauthorization Act.
For the full report, executive sum-
mary and an easy-to-read consumer
guide, visit surgeongeneral.gov/library/
reports/50-years-of-progress/index.html.
For free help to quit smoking, call
800-QUIT-NOW or visit smokefree.gov
or cdc.gov/tips.
Babies!
Vivian฀Myra฀Havranek
Welcome Vivian Myra Havranek,
who was born June 16, 2014. All of our
love from Olivia, Iris, LJ, Stella, Mom
and Dad.
Congratulations to
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Metcalf
Michael Metcalf and Cova St. Onge
were wed on June 25, 2014.
A private, unforgettable ceremony was
held on the beautiful Oregon Coast
where the two joined in Holy Union.
Welcome families ...
(Metcalf and Mason)
nuu-da’-ye’-yu
General Council
Meeting
Aug.฀2,฀2014฀•฀1฀p.m.
JULY
10
AUGUST
14
SEpTEMBER
11
Siletz Tribal Behavioral
Health Programs
12:00 – 1:30
LUNCH wILL BE pROvIDED
SHELL CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE SILETz
Prevention, Outpatient Treatment,
and women’s and Men’s
Transitional
SILETz , OR
Siletz: 800-600-5599 or
541-444-8286
FOR MORE INFORMATION: 541-444-8267
Eugene: 541-484-4234
COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: 200 GwEE-SHUT ROAD,
Salem: 503-390-9494
CEDARR Members meet monthly and diligently work on establishing and meeting
goals. We sponsor and participate in community gatherings, school prevention
activities and ongoing information dissemination at the monthly meetings.
Portland: 503-238-1512
Narcotics฀Anonymous฀Toll-Free฀
Help Line – 877-233-4287
For information on Alcoholics
Anonymous:฀aa-oregon.org
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Siletz฀Tribal฀Community฀Center
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