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<p class="MsoNormal">This month’s CDC Vital Signs report focuses on cancers that are linked to tobacco use. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths, causing at least 12 types of cancer throughout the body. The report also highlights
how states and communities can use comprehensive, evidence-based interventions to reduce tobacco use and cancer by creating tobacco-free environments, increasing access to cancer screening and appropriate care and helping tobacco users quit. These strategies
have been shown to work and have avoided about 1.3 million tobacco-related cancer deaths since 1990. But people are still dying from these cancers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Key points in the <i>Vital Signs</i> report include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Each year, 660,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with, and 343,000 people die of, cancers related to tobacco use.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">We have made progress: about 1.3 million cases of tobacco-related cancer have been avoided since 1990. But not all population groups have benefitted equally.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">People are still dying from tobacco-related cancers, and some groups of people have a higher burden of tobacco-related cancers than others.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">States, territories, and tribes can help by supporting comprehensive cancer control programs, protecting non-smokers from secondhand tobacco smoke in indoor public areas, and improving access to
cessation programs for those who want to quit.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/cancerandtobacco/index.html">http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/cancerandtobacco/index.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Jordana Leeb<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Community Programs Liaison<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">HPCDP, Oregon Health Authority<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jordana.a.leeb@state.or.us">Jordana.a.leeb@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">971-673-1041<o:p></o:p></p>
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