{"id":1844,"date":"2014-01-20T20:15:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2014-01-20T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T20:15:52","slug":"more-50-year-anniversary-stories-smoking-has-killed-20-million-people-since-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"More 50-year anniversary stories: Smoking has killed 20 million people since 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another story on the 50-year anniversary of the Surgeon General’s, this one from Think Progress.<\/a><\/p>\n

The RawStory article touched on this, but this article deals with it more directly: Since the 1964 landmark Surgeon General’s report, more than 20 million people in the U.S. have died as a result of smoking — 2.5 million of those deaths are blamed on secondhand smoke (boy that’ll drive the Smokers’ “secondhand smoke is harmless” Club crazy.).<\/p>\n

Think about that — what a holocaust, and that’s just in the U.S. That’s more than twice the number of people killed in Hitler’s Holocaust — only it happens in slow motion, a person there, a person here. I know I watched my mom’s entire circle of friends wiped out by smoking — almost all of her friends smoked and most of them died of cigarette-caused diseases relatively young. She smoked for 60 years and managed to outlive almost all of them.<\/p>\n

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Another story on the 50-year anniversary of the Surgeon General’s, this one from Think Progress. The RawStory article touched on this, but this article deals with it more directly: Since the 1964 landmark Surgeon General’s report, more than 20 million people in the U.S. have died as a result of smoking — 2.5 million of … Continue reading More 50-year anniversary stories: Smoking has killed 20 million people since 1964<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,57,64],"tags":[174,186],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondhand-smoke","category-smoking-2","category-surgeon-general","tag-smoking","tag-surgeon-general-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/smoking-638x425.jpg?fit=638%2C425&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-tK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2376,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2376","url_meta":{"origin":1844,"position":0},"title":"National Geographic graphic on smoking","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"July 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In the August 2014 National Geographic, the magazine does an interesting full-page graphic on the rise and decline of smoking, breaking down the smoking rate into \"cigarettes per day.\" (Click on the graphic to see it full size, I couldn't find it on the Internet anywhere.) 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