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Nearly 800,000 Deaths Prevented Due to Declines in Smoking

NIH study examines the impact of tobacco control policies and programs, and the potential for further reduction in lung cancer deaths

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Bethesda, Marcyland–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2012.  Twentieth-century tobacco control programs and policies were responsible for preventing more than 795,000 lung cancer deaths in the United States from 1975 through 2000, according to an analysis funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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