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Cigarette Smoking: Health Risks and How to Quit (PDQ®)

Health Professional Version
Last Modified: 02/03/2012

Changes to This Summary (02/03/2012)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Significance 1

Updated statistics 2 with estimated deaths for 2012 (cited American Cancer Society as reference 1).

Evidence of Benefit 3

Added text 4 about a meta-analysis of double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trials that found that varenicline was associated with an increased risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events compared with placebo (cited Singh et al. as reference 30).

Table of Links

1http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/control-of-tobacco-use/Health
Professional/Page2#Section_12
2http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/control-of-tobacco-use/Health
Professional/Page2#Section_13
3http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/control-of-tobacco-use/Health
Professional/Page3#Section_19
4http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/control-of-tobacco-use/Health
Professional/Page3#Section_255