Essay Archive - Smoking
Smoking
Studies of ex-smokers show that their risk of dying from smoking-related
disease decreases with each year of non smoking. Encouraged by such evidence,
more than 40 million people in the U.S. quit smoking in the year following the
1964 surgeon general's report. The proportion of males who smoke decreased from
more than 60 percent to about 25 percent; however, the percentage of women who
smoke cigarettes increased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young
adults, with about 29 percent of high school seniors admitting to smoking in
1975; but by 1987 this p....
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