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Smoking rates in US have fallen to all-time low, but how did they ever get so high?

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Smoking rates in US have fallen to all-time low, but how did they ever get so high?This ad featuring then-actor Ronald Reagan is an example of industry advertising that made smoking so popular.University of California San Francisco Tobacco Archives, CC BY-SA

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls cigarette smoking “the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S., accounting for over 480,000...

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