{"id":14790,"date":"2014-01-10T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/fewer-americans-see-cigarette-smoking-as-a-major-public-health-problem\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:23:50","slug":"fewer-americans-see-cigarette-smoking-as-a-major-public-health-problem","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2014\/01\/10\/fewer-americans-see-cigarette-smoking-as-a-major-public-health-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Americans see cigarette smoking as a major public health problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2013\/11\/12\/public-agrees-on-obesitys-impact-not-governments-role\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ece6d6\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ece6d6;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"311\" height=\"366\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/01\/DN_Cigarette_Smoking.png?resize=311,366 311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-27202 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/01\/DN_Cigarette_Smoking.png\" alt=\"DN_Cigarette_Smoking\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been 50 years since the U.S. Surgeon General issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.nlm.nih.gov\/ps\/access\/NNBBMQ.pdf\">groundbreaking report<\/a> on the dangers of smoking. The report opened the way for decades of measures to curb tobacco use \u2014measures that helped save an estimated 8 million lives over that time span, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1812962\">study published this week<\/a> in the Journal of the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About half (53%) of Americans still see cigarette smoking as an extremely or very serious public health problem, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2013\/11\/12\/public-agrees-on-obesitys-impact-not-governments-role\/\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a> conducted last November. But the public now sees it as less of a problem than a number of other public health issues like cancer and obesity, and less of a problem than it did in 2004 when 72% rated it as serious in an ABC News\/Time poll.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked whether the U.S. is making progress in dealing with cigarette smoking in 2013, 45% said it was, while 39% said things were about the same. Just 13% saw the efforts to deal with smoking as losing ground. 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