Smoking aggravates the symptoms and the progression of heart, vascular, lung and other serious diseases. Passive or involuntary smoking and smokeless tobacco share many of these adverse effects upon health. Adverse effects from smoking and smoke exposure occur throughout the life span, from the womb to far advanced years.
Tobacco products are addictive.
Avoidance of smoking is important. Encourages its chapters to support similar actions at the state level. Encourages its membership, in collaboration with other health care professionals, to work toward these goals with their patients and in their healthcare settings, as well as broadly in their communities and society. Copyright 1999 by the American College of Cardiology Published by Elsevier Science Inc.