List Linking Smoking to Diseases Expands
The list of diseases linked to smoking grew longer Thursday. Add acutemyeloid leukemia, cancers of the cervix, kidney,pancreas and stomach,abdominalaortic aneurysms, cataracts,periodontitis and pneumonia."We've knownfor decades that smoking is bad for your health,but this report shows that it's even worse," said Surgeon General Richard Carmona, announcing his first official assessment of the effects of tobacco. [more]