Anti Smoking Milestone: Cigarette Smoking In U.S. Down 28%
[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco on December 14th, 2008 ]
New data from the federal government show that cigarette consumption in the U.S. has decreased by an estimated 28 percent, or 135 billion cigarettes, over the past decade, which marks a major milestone in public health and tobacco control, according to the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the American Legacy Foundation® – the nation’s largest public health foundation dedicated to reducing tobacco use in the U.S.
Ten years after the state Attorneys General negotiated the landmark 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with tobacco companies, cigarette consumption has continued to decline and the landscape around tobacco use has shifted significantly.
Email This Post
|
Print This Post
|
Help others find this article at:
del.icio.us Digg Furl Reddit Google StumbleUpon Technorati
January 6th, 2009 at
[…] video in this posting, however, compares the results from cigarette smoking with those of smoking weed (or pot, or marijuana, however you want to refer to […]