However, until Congress decides, if ever, that an total ban is both necessary and enforceable, adults who have been thoroughly informed of the dangers of cigarette smoking will have to decide for themselves whether they want to accept the risks involved. In this commentary recorded in 2022, Alan Blum, MD, shows the final cigarette advertisement published in The Times , fully 35 years after publication of the Surgeon Generals report that implicated cigarette smoking as a principal cause of lung cancer and other diseases
Considerable research has found links between nicotine and cardiovascular disease, cancer and cognitive development in growing brains, but findings in humans are not completely conclusive
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