{"id":298,"date":"2014-01-08T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-01-13T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:14:20","slug":"8-millions-lives-saved-due-to-tobacco-control-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/8-millions-lives-saved-due-to-tobacco-control-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"8 million lives saved due to tobacco control in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers estimate that since 1964, the implementation of tobacco control in the US has prevented 8 million deaths. In the meantime, 17.7 million people died of smoking-attributable causes. Fifty years ago, in January 1964, the US surgeon general published the first American report on smoking and health which launched tobacco control as a public health issue.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1812962\" target=\"_blank\">Original research article<\/a> published in <i>JAMA<\/i>\u00a0on <strong>January 8, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Names and affiliations of selected authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publichealth.yale.edu\/people\/theodore_holford.profile\">Theodore R. Holford<\/a>, Yale School of Public Health, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers estimate that since 1964, the implementation of tobacco control in the US has prevented 8 million deaths. In the meantime, 17.7 million people died of smoking-attributable causes. Fifty years ago, in January 1964, the US surgeon general published the first American report on smoking and health which launched tobacco control as a public health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-4O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}