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Disease Trends

Specific population disease trend change in the past 50 years:

Smoking, lung cancer, and the aging of the population

By the time the U.S. Surgeon General released its report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General in 1964, smoking was an ingrained part of American culture. Before the report was released, doctors endorsed certain brands of cigarettes as more healthful than others in advertisements; cigarette companies were popular sponsors of family broadcasting and smoking was glamorized on the silver screen. A mere 44% of Americans believed smoking was linked to lung cancer (The reports of the Surgeon General, 2013, NLM). However, the Report "held cigarette smoking responsible for a 70% increase in the mortality rate of smokers over non-smokers" (The reports of the Surgeon General, 2013, NLM). An intensive anti-smoking public health campaign resulted and reducing smoking rates became an accepted part of public health care strategy, with an eye upon future healthcare costs.

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"In 1965, Congress required all cigarette packages distributed in the United States to carry a health warning, and since 1970 this warning is made in the name of the Surgeon General. In 1969, cigarette advertising on television and radio was banned, effective September 1970" (The reports of the Surgeon General, 2013, NLM). However, a generation of persons had already become physically addicted to smoking and even today, the legacy of the addictive nature of smoking remains embedded within the needs of the American healthcare system.

Lung cancer is a progressive illness: its effects are visible only over time. One puff of a cigarette does not cause cancer but the effects of smoking are manifested due to habituated use. As the population as a whole ages, rates of lung cancer….....

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