Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government …

Background and objectives: Despite reductions in prevalence in recent years, tobacco
smoking remains one of the main preventable causes of ill-health and premature death …

Abstract Background The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American …

Collectively, lymphoid neoplasms are the fourth most common cancer and the sixth leading
cause of cancer death in the United States. The authors provide contemporary lymphoid …

Objective To use the relation between cigarette consumption and cardiovascular disease to
quantify the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke for light smoking (one to five …

The continuing high prevalence of cigarette smoking among specific subpopulations, many
of them vulnerable, is one of the most pressing challenges facing the tobacco control …

Background Esophageal cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer-related deaths and the
eighth most common cancer worldwide with a 5-year survival rate of less than 25%. Here we …

Overall hypertension prevalence has not changed in the United States in recent decades
although awareness, treatment, and control improved. However, hypertension epidemiology …

Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. In particular,
people with mental illness are disproportionately affected with high smoking prevalence; …

E-cigarettes are promoted as healthier alternatives to conventional cigarettes. Many
cigarette smokers use both products. It is unknown whether the additional use of e-cigarettes …