Archive Report
Archive Report
Concern About the Effects of Smoking
Efforts to Establish Facts on Health Aspects
The new advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, I appointed by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service at the direction of President Kennedy, has two principal assignments: (1) to make “a comprehensive review of all available data on smoking and other factors in the environment that may affect health”; (2) to recommend a program of action by the federal government if warranted by its findings in this highly controversial field.1 The committee's work will parallel in some respects a study of tobacco and health announced last June by the American Medical Association. That study is being made by the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Dr. William C. Spring, secretary of ...