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Originally Posted by cdcox
In 1965 52% of males and 34% of females in the US smoked. Warning labels were implemented in 1966. In 2007, 24% of males and 18% of females in the US smoked. I think the effort to inform the public about the dangers of smoking (while allowing individuals to make their own personal decisions), of which warning labels was only one arm of the campaign, is clearly one of the things government got right.
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I would like to see what the stats were 5 years after implemeting those labels. I bet the numbers hadn't changed at all. I don't think the labels had anything to do with the percentage of smokers. It was many other factors that came years later.
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