Smoking and schooling: in search of the missing link.
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Cigarette smoking is the number one source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States. An extensive body of epidemiological research has firmly established this fact [U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1979b)] and the results of the research have been communicated frequently to the public over the past three decades.’ There is considerable evidence that the information-dissemination effort has had significant impacts on the nation’s smoking behaviors. The Surgeon General has estimated that over 30 million Americans have quit smoking since 1964 [U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1979b)]. The percentages of both adults and teenagers who smoke have fallen, for both sexes [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1980)]. National per capita cigarette consumption, an often-watched index of the nation’s smoking habit, has dropped annually over the past decade, a period when a variety of factors might otherwise have been expected to increase this index substantially [Warner (1981)]. And the rapidity of the shift toward lower tar and nicotine cigarettes has been nothing short of phenomenal: in the period 1971-1974, only 7.5 percent of cigarettes were classified as low tar and nicotine (defined as 15 rrg ‘tar’ or less); the figure reached nearly 50 percent in 1980, and then leaped to 65 percent in 1981 [U.S. Department of Agriculture (1981)]. Despite these apparently encouraging trends, the magnitude of the remaining smoking-and-health problem is awesome. Over 50 million
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of health economics
دوره 1 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1982