Less than 20 percent of Americans still smoke cigarettes -- a breakthrough called a "milestone" Thursday by federal health officials. Following years of smoking rates that had hovered around 20 percent, that number finally dropped to 18.1 ...
Cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States, mainly because anti-smoking efforts have caused a drop in lung cancer deaths, researchers report. From 2001 through 2010, death rates for all cancers combined decreased by 1.8 ...
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China's anti-smoking efforts in the past decade have failed to limit the explosive growth of the country's cigarette producers, according to a new report. Annual cigarette production in the world's most populous country has jumped 50 ...
Tags: anti-smoking, cigarette, health