Public health
fromFortune
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Current cigarette smoking among U.S. adults fell to 9% in 2025, continuing a decades-long decline driven by policy and public health efforts.
At 79, he's been a smoker most of his life but quit a decade ago, the day he was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He was struggling to breathe to such an extent it was impacting his ability to work his director of conventions sales job at the local visitors' bureau, unable to show potential clients around venues.