Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said that the dramatic, long-term decline in youth cigarette smoking is a public health success story of extraordinary importance." Our progress stems directly from implementing proven strategies, including higher tobacco taxes, comprehensive smoke-free laws, effective FDA oversight of tobacco products and marketing, well-funded tobacco prevention and cessation programs, and hard-hitting media campaigns, like the campaigns conducted by the CDC, the FDA and Truth Initiative in recent years, he added
Given that our society is saturated with negative health and environmental impacts, from the toxic foods we eat to toxic air we breath and unsustainable energy sources, I see the personal health effects of smoking as relatively unimportant
Combine that with low-dose CT screening, giving yourself the best chance at a long, healthy life
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