Eight million lives saved since Surgeon General's tobacco warning 50 years ago

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 23:00 in Health & Medicine

A new study estimates that 8 million lives have been saved in the United States as a result of anti-smoking measures that began 50 years ago this month with the groundbreaking report from the Surgeon General outlining the deadly consequences of tobacco use.

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