Cigarette smoking and ill health among black Americans

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-1985

Abstract

Cigarette smoking might be equally regarded as a symptom of a society at odds with itself or as a cause of disease per se; at either level, it has earned the reputation of public health enemy number one. Smoking is also a crucial example of how the health of the black population has worsened under the guise of social advancement. Blacks now suffer the highest rates of coronary heart disease (CHD) and lung cancer of any population group in this country. This fact has been obscured by the tendency in medicine to focus attention on typical black diseases such as hemoglobinopathies and hypertension.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

New York State Journal of Medicine

First Page

344

Last Page

349

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