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One of the greatest health advances in the past three decades has been the continuing decline in the prevalence of smoking, which recently hit a modern age-adjusted low of 19% of adults in the United States, down from a high of 57% of men in 1955 and 34% of women in 1965.¹ Credit for these spectacular decreases has rightly focused on policy interventions such as increases in tobacco taxes, ordinances requiring smoke-free public places, countermarketing, and better ways to help smokers quit.^2,3,4 These policy interventions are important tools, but how they have accomplished their results has not been clear. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

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