In 2008, the New York Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services issued a tobacco policy that required that all publicly funded addiction treatment programs implement smoke-free grounds, have no evidence of smoking among staff, and make tobacco dependence treatment available for all clients. A year later, according to a 2012 paper in the American Journal of Public Health, client smoking rates dropped from 69.4% to 62.8%
People who smoked even one cigarette a day were still about 50% more likely to develop heart disease and 30% more likely to have a stroke than people who had never smoked, researchers said
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Particularly in counties where incidence rates of cancer would remain high even if smoking cessation programs were 100% effective, focusing only on smoking cessation may give the public and government leaders the false impression that other prevention strategies are unimportant
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