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The current generation of workers in tobacco control, predominantly those with masters degrees in public health who work for health departments, has been led to believe that anti-smoking efforts began with the creation of The Truth campaign in the late-1990s as the result of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the state attorneys general and the tobacco industry that gives money to the states each year to fight smoking

Only 5% of the non-smokers had emphysema

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Superman doesn't even stop to consider the circumstances that might have led Nick O'Teen to peddle cigarettes before murdering him