The letter was addressed to the British Medical Journal , which, just a few weeks earlier, had taken the editorial position that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer
But smokers are more readily abandoning cigarettes and moving to alternatives (or quitting altogether) as tobacco companies squeeze them on one end and federal, state, and local governments do so on the other with onerous taxes (which, when raised, tobacco companies typically match with more price hikes)
Quitting smoking can be challenging, but there are effective options to increase peoples odds of quitting for good in the long term, including advice or counselling from health care practitioners, medications, and self-help information
And if you dont get any this time around, youll have to wait another six years before theyre available again