New Report Finds Smoking Even More Dangerous
By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — In some of its most comprehensive work in three years on the dangers of tobacco, the federal government said today that smoking is increasingly a habit of the poorest Americans, and that tobacco use harms nearly every human organ. Forty years after the publication of the groundbreaking surgeon general’s study that alerted Americans to the cancer risk of cigarettes, the current surgeon general, Richard H. Carmona, issued a new report that found…