Smoking

Smoking


     Studies of ex-smokers show that their risk of dying from smoking-related

disease decreases with each year of non smoking. Encouraged by such evidence,

more than 40 million people in the U.S. quit smoking in the year following the

1964 surgeon general's report. The proportion of males who smoke decreased from

more than 60 percent to about 25 percent; however, the percentage of women who

smoke cigarettes increased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young

adults, with about 29 percent of high school seniors admitting to smoking in

1975; but by 1987 this proportion decreased to 18.7 percent. There are programs

that exist to help smokers quit. Some involve group support, whereas others use

aversive techniques in which partici
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