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Terrie Linn McNutt Hall (July 19, 1960 – September 16, 2013) was an American anti-smoking and anti-tobacco advocate.She was a survivor of ten cancer diagnoses, undergoing 48 radiation treatments, and nearly a year's worth of chemotherapy, before and after undergoing a laryngectomy in 2001. [2]
Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Margaret Brennan (born March 26, 1980) [1] is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C. She is the current moderator of Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on CBS News, the network's chief foreign affairs correspondent, and a fill-in and substitute anchor for CBS Evening News.
Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, accused of burning woman to death on NYC subway, often ‘bugged out’ after smoking K2, shelter roommate says Jack Morphet, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon December 24, 2024 at 1:20 PM
U.S. smoking rates have fallen dramatically in the past six decades, from 42.6% of American adults in 1965 to 11.6% in 2022, according to the American Lung Association. But, according to the U.S ...
He continued, "Debi was a pioneer in the fight against tobacco and showed tremendous courage by sharing her story to educate Californians on the dangers of smoking." [ 4 ] Although she was finally able to quit smoking after the ads first aired, she continued to battle various forms of cancer for the rest of her life.
This is a growing phenomenon, which aided in reducing smoking rates in the United States. The overall smoking rate in the United States dropped from approximately 46% in 1950 to approximately 21% in 2004. [27] Smoking rates continued to slowly decline throughout the 2000s and 2010s.
Barb Tarbox, MSM (April 10, 1961 – May 18, 2003) was a Canadian anti-smoking activist.A lifelong smoker dying of lung and brain cancer, she openly discussed her illness, its cause and its consequences, which propelled her to prominence.