The Campaign against Smoking Gains Momentum

Abstract

The long struggle to curb smoking, a campaign that has engaged the public health community for more than two decades, has suddenly attracted a host of new allies who have formulated a range of strategies to limit the use of tobacco in the United States. These strategies, based largely on the accumulating scientific evidence that links the use of tobacco with disease, will affect all segments of society. The major goals are to protect the nonsmoker from the consequences of passive smoking, to increase cigarette excise taxes and ban all forms of tobacco advertising, to challenge legally whether cigarette manufacturers . . .