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Twenty-Five Years of Progress

BYRON J. BAILEY, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1989;115(4):433-434.

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We practice our profession in a specialty that is devoted to preserving and restoring the health of the upper aerodigestive tract. By choice and training, we have shouldered a major responsibility for all aspects of patient care, from the cradle to the grave, in these anatomic regions, including patient education and disease prevention. For these reasons, we have an obligation to understand the disease of tobaccoism (an addictive, fatal attraction more prevalent than alcoholism, drug addiction, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and trauma combined) and the progress that is being made to combat its spread.

It has been 25 years since Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first official, comprehensive report on January 11, 1964, that linked smoking to premature death. There have been 20 such reports since that time, and tremendous progress has been made, including the mandatory warnings on cigarette packages in 1972, the numerous public awareness campaigns, restrictions on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Galveston, Tex

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