Announcement: World No Tobacco Day — May 31, 2017

World No Tobacco Day — May 31, 2014

The global tobacco epidemic contributed to 100 million deaths worldwide during the 20th century and continues to kill nearly 6 million persons each year, including approximately 600,000 from secondhand smoke. If current trends persist, an estimated 500 million persons alive today will die from the use of tobacco products. By 2030, tobacco use will result in approximately 8 million deaths worldw...

World No Tobacco Day — May 31, 2015

547 Approaches for Controlling Illicit Tobacco Trade — Nine Countries and the European Union 551 Occupational Fatalities During the Oil and Gas Boom — United States, 2003–2013 555 Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease Among Children — American Samoa, 2011–2012 559 Notes from the Field: Outbreak of Skin Lesions Among High School Wrestlers — Arizona, 2014 561 QuickStats World No Tobac...

World No Tobacco Day — May 31, 2013

Announcement: World IBD Day — May 19, 2017

World IBD Day is recognized on May 19 to raise awareness of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the two conditions that comprise it: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, both of which cause chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. World IBD Day is sponsored by the European Federation of Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Associations, which includes the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.

Do celebrity cancer diagnoses promote primary cancer prevention?

OBJECTIVE Celebrity cancer diagnoses generate considerable media coverage of and increase interest in cancer screening, but do they also promote primary cancer prevention? METHODS Daily trends for smoking cessation-related media (information-availability) and Google queries (information-seeking) around Brazilian President and smoker Lula da Silva's laryngeal cancer diagnosis announcements wer...