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One in five deaths in the United States can be attributed to smoking

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Almost twenty percent of American adults smoke cigarettes, with more male smokers than female. There has been a steady decline in the percentage of US adults who smoke, however, since the 1960′s when the surgeon general declared that smoking was dangerous for health, and a cause of cancer. Even in the last 10 years, the ... read more »