High tobacco use in subpopulations of Americans and rapid uptake in other countries are major concerns : Oncology Report

High tobacco use in subpopulations of Americans and rapid uptake in other countries are major concerns : Oncology Report: According to data from the Department of Health & Human Services, more than 42 million adults and more than 3.5 million middle and high school students continue to smoke tobacco. "We’re in a bizarre situation where we have a legal product on the market, which is responsible for about a half a million deaths," Dr. Croyle, director of division of cancer control and population sciences at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), said during a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research marking the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. "In any other circumstance, without this long, strange history, we’d feel there would be a lot more engagement by the scientific community, by clinicians, and by organizations in marshalling every effort to address the problem."