| Achievements |
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| • | Smoking
prevalence rates among adults |
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| aged 18 years and
older decreased from |
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| 42.4% in 1965 to
24.7% in 1997 |
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| • | 1.6 million
deaths were postponed, saving |
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| more than 3
million person-years of life |
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| www.CDC.gov
June 2004 |