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Smoking is hard to snuff out
By TIMES STAFF
Published March 6, 2007
Though the reduction in the percentage of smokers in America has been dramatic, Yale University researchers note, more than 45-million adults still smoke. Distilling 15 reports published within the past three years, the Center for Nicotine & Tobacco Use Research at Yale offers these facts: - In 1965, more than 40 percent of the U.S. population smoked. Now, about 20 percent does. - Families in which at least one member smokes spent more than $1,000 a year on tobacco. - About 24 percent of American men smoke; about 18 percent of American women smoke. - Prime factors that make smokers less likely to quit: having a spouse who smokes; stress of losing their job; no personal smoking-related health problems; fear of weight gain. For more information, go to www.quitwithyale.org.
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