Today, January 11, marks the 50 anniversary of the US Surgeon General's report linking smoking and heath. Cigarette smoking in the US has been on the down swing from 40% of the adult population to just around 18% now. Smoking causes about 440,000 deaths per year, and is the leading most preventable type of death in the US.
Photo by Ted Soqui © 2014
Photo by Ted Soqui © 2014
6182 deaths since Jan. 1, 2014. |