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kpete

(71,965 posts) Mon Dec 1, 2014, 12:01 PM Dec 2014

Great news: fewer Americans are smoking than ever before

The smoking rate fell from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 17.8 percent in 2013.

That's the lowest percentage since the Centers for Disease Control began surveying Americans on their smoking habits in 1965 — when more than 40 percent of American adults smoked.

Cigarette smoking is still the leading preventable cause of death, killing more than 480,000 Americans annually.

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7313535/smoking-low-quitting

myself included
quit nicotine 12/1/13

today is my b-day 12/1/51
I am 63 and feeling pretty damn good!

peace, love & tolerance,
kpete

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Great news: fewer Americans are smoking than ever before (Original Post) kpete Dec 2014 OP

Good news, but still way too high. Arugula Latte Dec 2014 #1

I feel so, so lucky that I never started. I tried it once - yuck and ouch! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 #2

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

1. Good news, but still way too high.

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Mon Dec 1, 2014, 12:04 PM

Dec 2014

I see young hipsters smoking, and I just don't get it. Why would anyone willingly take up such a nasty, expensive, deadly, stinky, looks-destroying habit when you're young and you surely know better? It's not like these kids are coming of age in the 50s when it was practically the norm and a lot of people didn't realize how terrible it was for health.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,009 posts)

2. I feel so, so lucky that I never started. I tried it once - yuck and ouch!

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Mon Dec 1, 2014, 12:09 PM

Dec 2014

Smoking was a source of many fights between my mom and dad, for health, and economics (we were quite poor). Later in life, after he quit, he wrote a nice piece on how much control they had over him, how tough it was to beat the addiction, but how happy he was - and how sorry he was to have started. The angst created in our house about smoking I am sure prevented my brother and I from starting.

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