[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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 SENATE RESOLUTION 330--RECOGNIZING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ``SMOKING 
AND HEALTH: REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE SURGEON GENERAL OF 
THE UNITED STATES'' AND THE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN REDUCING THE PUBLIC 
HEALTH BURDEN OF TOBACCO USE, AND SUPPORTING AN END TO TOBACCO-RELATED 
                           DEATH AND DISEASE

  Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Brown, Mr. 
Markey, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Heitkamp, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. 
Casey, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. King) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions:

                              S. Res. 330

       Whereas ``Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory 
     Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States'' 
     (referred to in this preamble as the ``1964 Report of the 
     Surgeon General on Smoking and Health'') was the first 
     Surgeon General of the United States report to definitively 
     link smoking with lung cancer and heart disease;
       Whereas the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General on Smoking 
     and Health paved the way for a series of important public 
     health initiatives aimed at reducing the burden of tobacco 
     use, including the addition of health warnings to cigarette 
     packages, bans on cigarette advertising in the broadcast 
     media, and the removal of fruit flavoring that appeal to 
     children from cigarettes;
       Whereas tobacco control policies and public health 
     initiatives aimed at curbing tobacco use contributed to a 
     decrease in the prevalence of smoking by people of the United 
     States from 42 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2012;
       Whereas tobacco use remains one of the most pressing public 
     health concerns of the United States and is the leading 
     preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the 
     United States;
       Whereas tobacco use causes 18 types of cancer, heart 
     disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pregnancy 
     complications, and a host of other diseases and conditions;
       Whereas in January of 2014, more than 43,000,000 adults of 
     the United States smoke, more than 8,000,000 of such adults 
     live with a serious illness caused by smoking, and more than 
     440,000 people of the United States die prematurely each year 
     as a result of tobacco use;
       Whereas most tobacco users begin smoking as children, every 
     day more than 3,000 children try a cigarette for the first 
     time, 700 children become daily smokers, and \1/3\ of such 
     children are projected to die prematurely as a result of 
     tobacco use; and
       Whereas smoking exacts a $193,000,000,000 toll on the 
     economy of the United States each year, including 
     $96,000,000,000 in direct medical costs and $97,000,000,000 
     in lost productivity: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) recognizes the 50th anniversary of ``Smoking and 
     Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon 
     General of the United States'' and the significant 
     contributions of such report in reducing the public health 
     burden of tobacco use; and
       (2) supports ending tobacco-related death and disease.

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