Study: Anti-Smoking Efforts Have Saved 8 Million Lives
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A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that tobacco control efforts since the first Surgeon General's report have added 20 years of life for 8 million Americans. Without tobacco control, half of those Americans would have died before the age of 65.
"The report and subsequent tobacco control efforts represent the most dramatic and successful public health campaign in modern history, in terms of benefit to the entire population," says the study's senior author, David Levy, a population scientist at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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