Some key events and adult smoking rates in the fight over tobacco during the last 50 years:
1964: U.S. surgeon general report concludes smoking causes lung cancer.
1965: Warning labels required on cigarette packs; adult smoking rate 42.4 percent.
1971: TV and radio commercials for cigarettes banned.
1972: Airlines told to provide no-smoking sections.
1987: Aspen, Colo., becomes first U.S. city to ban smoking in restaurants; adult smoking rate 28.8 percent.
1988: Smoking banned on short domestic airline flights.
1998: Forty-six states reach $206 billion settlement with cigarette makers; adult smoking rate 24.1 percent.
2000: Smoking prohibited on international flights.
2009: Food and Drug Administration authorized to regulate tobacco products; adult smoking rate 20.6 percent.
2014: U.S. surgeon general report adds more diseases to the long list of cigarettes’ harms, urges new resolve to make the next generation a smoke-free generation; adult smoking rate about 18 percent.
(AP)
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But what about all the kids in their teens and twenties that I see smoking? All the evidence is in as to what a killer “passtime” smoking is, and yet these kids who have all the resources to know better are taking up smoking. Does this mean that there’s going to be an increased adult smoking rate sometime in the near future or what?