|
Home > QR-E-Letter Archive > 02-16-2006
Issue No. 26 February 16, 2006
Welcome to the free Quick-Reference E-Letter from the publishers of The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications. We hope you find the "Quick-Reference" items (below) interesting and helpful. (NOTE: We do not receive emails at the email address noted in the "From:" line of this email. To contact us, see the options toward the bottom of this page. Thank you.)
We will not disclose your email address to others. Among the reasons that you have received this e-letter are that you have requested it, and/or have subscribed to The Complete Practitioner (printed monthly), and/or you have expressed interest in The Complete Practitioner, and/or a colleague thought you would be interested in receiving this e-letter.
|
QUICK REFERENCE #35: What are some illnesses and conditions caused by cigarette smoking?
In 1964, a report by the Surgeon General declared that cigarette smoking causes the following illnesses/conditions:
• cancers of the lung and larynx (voice box) in men
• chronic bronchitis in both men and women
Subsequent Surgeon General reports concluded that smoking causes a number of other illnesses/conditions, such as:
• cancers of the bladder, esophagus, mouth, and throat
• cardiovascular diseases
• reproductive effects
A 2004 report, The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General, added the following to the list of illnesses and conditions caused by smoking:
• cancers of the stomach, uterine cervix, pancreas, and kidney
• abdominal aortic aneurysm
• acute myeloid leukemia
• cataract
• periodontitis
• pneumonia
--The 2004 report also concluded that smoking causes adverse surgery outcomes because of respiratory complications and difficulties in wound healing.
--In addition, by reducing overall health, smoking contributes to increases in medical care services and in absenteeism from work.
SOURCE:The Complete Practitioner (June 2004), adapted from The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services, 2004. (The 960-page report is available on the Web at http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library.)
Note to The Complete Practitioner paid subscribers: You can access related content by conducting a search for "cigarette smoking" in the Subscribers' Area of our Web site
[http://www.completepractitioner.com].
|
CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) COURSES
For information about online Continuing Education courses that enable you to print out your CE certificate immediately after passing an exam, click here [http://tcpceu.com]. (CE courses are available for purchase.)
THE COMPLETE PRACTITIONER: MENTAL HEALTH APPLICATIONS
For information about our print publication (The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications), click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com]. (Subscriptions to The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications are available for purchase.)
TO SEND THIS E-LETTER TO A COLLEAGUE
To forward this e-letter to a colleague, click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com/cgi-bin/refer.cgi].
TO REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE QR-E-LETTER
If you received this e-letter from a colleague, you can register to regularly receive this free e-letter (approximately every two weeks). To register to regularly receive this e-letter, click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi].
TO CHANGE THE E-MAIL ADDRESS TO WHICH YOU WANT THE QR-E-LETTER SENT
To provide us with your changed email address click here [http://www.completepractitioner.com/cgi-bin/change.cgi].
TO STOP RECEIVING THE QR-E-LETTER (ie, to UNREGISTER)
To stop receiving the QR-E-Letter send a blank email to: leave-eletter@completepractitioner.com.
The QR-E-Letter can receive email at eletter@completepractitioner.com. (We do not receive emails at the email address that appears in the "From:" line of this email. Thank you.)
|
IMPORTANT: Inclusion of content in this e-letter is for educational purposes only and does not indicate endorsement of any claims or recommendations made or implied by that content or by the content of any Web sites that are noted in or linked to this e-letter.
| |
We hope that you have enjoyed receiving this e-letter. Please note that a small portion of this e-letter contains advertising (as indicated, for example, by text stating that an item is available for purchase).
| 