The Nation - News from Jan. 11, 1989

Marking the 25th anniversary of Surgeon General Luther L. Terry’s landmark report Jan. 11, 1964, on smoking and health, current Surgeon General C. Everett Koop praised the dramatic changes that have occurred in the nation’s smoking habits, but urged that efforts be accelerated to discourage more children, women, minorities and blue-collar workers from smoking. “In the 1940s and 1950s smoking was chic, now, increasingly it is shunned,” he said in his annual report on smoking. Since 1965, Koop said, nearly half of all living adults who have ever smoked have quit.