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In early 1977, as the newly appointed Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, I interviewed 150 top physicians and public health professionals for positions in the department and asked how each would mount a national health-promotion and disease-prevention campaign. Without exception, they responded that any serious health-promotion program must attack smoking front and center.

How right they were. Despite the sharp decline in the proportion of Americans who smoke, we are still reaping the deadly harvest of decades of smoking. In 1995, more than 400,000 Americans will die from tobacco-related ailments such as lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease¹; . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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