60 Years After Landmark Report on Smoking, Rates Have Plummeted but Work Remains

In the six decades since the release of a landmark report on health and smoking from the U.S. surgeon general on Jan. 11, 1964, the percentage of Americans who smoke has continuously fallen from a rate of nearly 42% of U.S. adults in 1965 to an all-time low of 11.5% in 2021, according to the …