How make world free from smoking???????????
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The massive decline in smoking rates — from 42 percent in 1965 to 19 percent in 2012 — is America's biggest public health success of the past century.
Tobacco restrictions are estimated to have saved 8 million lives in the 50 years since the first surgeon general's report on smoking and health in 1964.
This is good — but not good enough, public health experts have begun to argue. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set a target of 2020 of getting the country's smoking rate below 12 percent. An editorial from researchers and public health officials in The Lancet this week called for "a world where over the next 25 years the sales of tobacco are phased out (although not prohibited), and in which fewer than 5 percent of adults use tobacco."
To achieve that goal, experts think we need to become more dedicated to policy implementation while also tackling the tobacco industry itself.
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