2004 Surgeon General's Report—The Health
Consequences of Smoking
Errata Notice
Errata Notice 1:
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Please use the corrected text below. The Web
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The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General.
Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004.
Page 75
Page 75 (Table 2.3), under the column "Risk estimates (95% CI)", the section headed Cigarettes/day should read:
1–10 cigarettes/day
RR=1.6(0.9–2.6)
11–20 cigarettes/day
RR=3.5 (2.6–4.8)
≥21 cigarettes/day
RR=6.6 (4.2–10.3)
Page 527
Left column, last complete sentence in the first paragraph should read: "LBW
is a leading cause of infant deaths (Martin et al. 2002)."
Page 858
Right column, first sentence in last paragraph should read: "Smoking
caused an estimated total of 263,600 deaths in males and 176,500 deaths in
females (total of 440,100) in the United States each year from 1995-1999
(Table 7.3)."
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