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More than 480,000 Americans die from smoking cigarettes each year, accounting for one in five deaths in the country, as noted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention making it the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States

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The film played the festival circuit (including Seattle, Woodstock and Montreal) before its theatrical release in January

The Surgeon Generals report was well known by the time I picked up the habit in the mid-70s, but regarded lightly or with outright hostility in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky