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EL34x4
EL34x4's Journal
EL34x4's Journal
June 14, 2017
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Cigarette smoking (and associated tobacco taxes) is in America today, a habit shouldered almost exclusively by the poor.
America's new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor did not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/americas-new-tobacco-crisis-the-rich-stopped-smoking-the-poor-didnt/2017/06/13/a63b42ba-4c8c-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.44fe90ad85b9"MARTINSVILLE, VA. After decades of lawsuits, public campaigns and painful struggles, Americans have finally done what once seemed impossible: Most of the country has quit smoking, saving millions of lives and leading to massive reductions in cancer.
That is, unless those Americans are poor, uneducated or live in a rural area.
Hidden among the steady declines in recent years is the stark reality that cigarettes are becoming a habit of the poor. The national smoking rate has fallen to historic lows, with just 15?percent of adults still smoking. But the socioeconomic gap has never been bigger.
Among the nations less-educated people those with a high-school-equivalency diploma the smoking rate remains more than 40?percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, rural residents are diagnosed with lung cancer at rates 18 to 20 percent above those of city dwellers. By nearly every statistical measure, researchers say, Americas lower class now smokes more and dies more from cigarettes than other Americans."
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Cigarette smoking (and associated tobacco taxes) is in America today, a habit shouldered almost exclusively by the poor.
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