CDC reports 19% adult cigarette smoking rate in 2011, pushes more abstinence-only propaganda and drug industry products

[Bill Godshall]

CDC: 2011 NHIS survey data finds 14.8% of US adults (34.1 million) smoked cigarettes daily (the nation's leading cause of preventable disease and death) and 4.2% (9.7 million) smoked cigarettes occassionally, with current cigarette smokers accounting for 19% (43.8 million).
Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults — United States, 2011

Unfortunately for smokers and public health, CDC's editorial promotes ineffective and high risk drug industry products, Philip Morris sponsored FSPTCA FDA regulations, and more government abstinence only propaganda and drug industry subsidization programs as "effective" ways to further reduce smoking, while inaccurately claiming (in the report's first sentence) "tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States."

No mention of tobacco harm reduction, e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, or even cold turkey for smokers.

 

[Bill Godshall]

After spending tens of millions of drug industry dollars campaigning against tobacco harm reduction (e.g. greatly exaggerating risks of smokefree tobacco alternatives, urging FDA and states to ban e-cigarettes by falsely accusing companies of target marketing to youth, lobbying to tax smokefree alternatives at same rate as cigarettes, lobbying Congress to enact a law (FSPCTA) that protects cigarettes from market competition by far less hazardous smokefree alternatives and prohibits FDA from banning cigarette marketing to high school seniors), CTFK's Matt Myers complains that cigarette smoking rates aren't dropping rapidly enough, advocates even more ineffective and counterproductive public health policies (whose real goal is increasing drug industry revenue).
CDC Reports Slow Decline in Adult Smoking Rates

 

[Bill Godshall]

CDC tobacco harm reduction denialist Tim McAfee promotes "quit or die" ideology, misleads smokers to inaccurately believe that reducing cigarette consumption won't reduce disease risks.
Anti-Smoking Progress Stalls Among U.S. Adults: Report - US News and World Report

Smoking fewer cigarettes is only a benefit if it's a step to stopping smoking altogether, McAfee said. "Smoking fewer cigarettes is not a substitute for quitting," he said. "If you go from smoking 20 cigarettes to 10 you aren't cutting your risk in half."

 

[DC2]

Sickening.....

 

[Petrodus]

After following the Presidential campaign for a long time ...
I'm pretty much numb to hearing lies