50 years of progress cuts smoking rates in half — but can we ever get to zero?
Smoking rates cut in half. Eight million lives saved. More than 800,000 fewer lung cancer deaths. Fifty years after the U.S. Surgeon General first warned about the dangers of smoking, the benefits of quitting have never been clearer.Yet 18 percent of the population still smokes. Nearly 2,000 …
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