Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

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By Nick SementelliSep 2, 2022, 4:01 am296 pts
Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on Greater Greater Washington and is republished with permission. In 1964, 70 million Americans smoked, a full 42. percent of the adult US population. Nearly 60 years later, that rate has dropped to only 12.5 percent, a decrease credited…

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