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A policy’s smoke screen

By Karen Weintraub

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 07, 2011

Michael Siegel is a tobacco researcher and professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health. The Globe’s question and answer session began with: Q: Roughly 20 percent of Americans still smoke, down from about 40 percent when the Surgeon General’s report came out in 1964. Is that good enough? A: There’s a perception out there that smoking has been taken care of, that we’ve largely controlled it. It’s a myth because we really haven’t made a heck of a lot of progress in 15 years.

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