The U.S. surgeon general predicts that “militant...
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The U.S. surgeon general predicts that “militant nonsmokers” will lead the nation to a smoke-free society by the year 2000. “Smoking is finally becoming, in many places, socially unacceptable,” Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop said. A campaign to warn people about the 340,000 smoke-related deaths per year is having a slow but noticeable effect, Koop told members of the Hawaii Pacific Division of the American Cancer Society.
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