NEW YORK CITY SMOKING RATES PLUMMET SAYS CITY HALL
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL NEW York City's department of health says metropolis' proportion of smokers amongst the general population has dropped 19% in the last five years. Officials cite a combination of high taxes, workplace limits and a US$10 million television advertising campaign that they say has cut the number of smokers in the city by 240,000 in 2006 to 1.065 million. This represents the sharpest drop since the city began keeping records in 1993 and one of the steepest declines in the nation since 1965, when the USA surgeon general first warned Americans about ...
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