2025: Tobacco still leading cause of preventable death in the US.

2025: Tobacco still leading cause of preventable death in the US.
480,000+ deaths per year.
2x more deaths than obesity (no. 2 on the list).

A quick timeline:
1950: Study revealed 96.5% of lung cancer patients were cigarette smokers.
1954: Study supported causal relationship between smoking and cancer.
1964: Surgeon General officially declared smoking as cause of lung cancer.
1966: Warning label added to cigarette packs.

Sixty years of "progress".

In that same period, humanity has:
- eradicated smallpox
- landed on the moon (allegedly 😉)
- created the internet
- mapped the human genome
- developed the autonomous vehicle

A paradox of mankind:
We can achieve the extraordinary while ignoring the obvious.

The hardest problems aren't always the most complex.
They're the ones that require us to change.