Shortly after a committee in Britain issued a report on the dangers of tobacco use in 1962, Luther Terry formed the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, which in 1964 released Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States, the first U.S. report to declare smoking a health hazard.
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