Thanks to education about the risks of smoking plus cessation and harm reduction efforts, fewer American adults smoke than at any time in the last century. Today, just 14% of adult males and 11% of females are smoking cigarettes. Yet that terrific achievement is tempered by the sobering reality that more than 30 million people across the country smoke.

Those smokers lead to half a million deaths each year, which is like nearly wiping out the entire state of Wyoming annually. We’ve had success but there is more work to do.