Can Legislation Reduce Lung Cancer Rates?
Some government actions have resulted in reductions to cancer incidence.
By Elaine K. Howley, Contributor |Dec. 19, 2017, at 1:12 p.m.
Since the middle of the 20th century, we've known that smoking is bad for us. That's when the surgeon general first began raising the alarm about smoking's connection to lung cancer and other chronic diseases. Despite these warnings, according to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network, (a nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the ACS), smoking has caused the premature deaths of more than 20 million Americans since 1964. And about 15 percent of Americans still light up regularly. Educational efforts to curb tobacco use have somehow not reached these smokers. But other tools in the tobacco-prevention arsenal that have proven to lower rates of smoking and lung cancer are legislative measures. Continual efforts to restrict access to tobacco may help bring the rate of smoking even lower.
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