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The Progress in the War Against Big Tobacco
Tobacco industry basically won the war against cigarettes in the 1950s. There's been not that much progress to the tobacco industry, he says. The purest metric in the United States is number of cigarettes smoked per year. That peaks in 1981 at 640 billion cigarettes and has declined now to the level it was in 1940.