A resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of "Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States" and the significant progress in reducing the public health burden of tobacco use, and supporting an end to tobacco-related death and disease.

Bill: 113-sres-330
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2014-01-13
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Commemorative events and holidays

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Health promotion and preventive care
Latest action: action_date: 2014-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S292)

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-01-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Recognizes the 50th anniversary of &quot;Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States&quot; and the significant contributions of such report in reducing the public health burden of tobacco use.</p> <p>Expresses support for ending tobacco-related death and disease.</p> <UL> </UL>

tv_txt: III 113th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 330 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 13, 2014 Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Mr. Durbin , Mr. Harkin , Mr. Brown , Mr. Markey , Mr. Merkley , Ms. Heitkamp , Mr. Johnson of South Dakota , Mr. Casey , Mrs. Feinstein , and Mr. King ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions RESOLUTION Recognizing the 50th anniversary of Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States and the significant progress in reducing the public health burden of tobacco use, and supporting an end to tobacco-related death and disease.

Whereas Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States (referred to in this preamble as the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health ) was the first Surgeon General of the United States report to definitively link smoking with lung cancer and heart disease; Whereas the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health paved the way for a series of important public health initiatives aimed at reducing the burden of tobacco use, including the addition of health warnings to cigarette packages, bans on cigarette advertising in the broadcast media, and the removal of fruit flavoring that appeal to children from cigarettes; Whereas tobacco control policies and public health initiatives aimed at curbing tobacco use contributed to a decrease in the prevalence of smoking by people of the United States from 42 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2012; Whereas tobacco use remains one of the most pressing public health concerns of the United States and is the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States; Whereas tobacco use causes 18 types of cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pregnancy complications, and a host of other diseases and conditions; Whereas in January of 2014, more than 43,000,000 adults of the United States smoke, more than 8,000,000 of such adults live with a serious illness caused by smoking, and more than 440,000 people of the United States die prematurely each year as a result of tobacco use; Whereas most tobacco users begin smoking as children, every day more than 3,000 children try a cigarette for the first time, 700 children become daily smokers, and 1/3 of such children are projected to die prematurely as a result of tobacco use; and Whereas smoking exacts a $193,000,000,000 toll on the economy of the United States each year, including $96,000,000,000 in direct medical costs and $97,000,000,000 in lost productivity: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) recognizes the 50th anniversary of Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States and the significant contributions of such report in reducing the public health burden of tobacco use; and (2) supports ending tobacco-related death and disease.