title: Smoking cessation and tobacco control: an overview.
abstract: Cigarette smoking is an intractable public health problem and the single largest risk factor for a variety of malignancies, including lung cancer. Worldwide, about 3 million people die each year of smoking-related disease, and this is expected to increase to > 10 million deaths per year. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research has published a clinical practice guideline detailing available outcome data for various smoking cessation strategies. In particular, it has been recommended that all patients be screened for smoking status on every health-care visit, and that all patients who smoke be strongly advised to quit and offered assistance to do so. Health-care providers play a vital role in the effort to reduce the prevalence of smoking by delivering smoking cessation advice, supporting community-based efforts to control tobacco, and becoming involved in the tobacco control debate.
authors.affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. karen_emmons@dfci.harvard.edu
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Emmons
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D008403:Mass Screening; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011634:Public Health; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014026:Nicotiana; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality