Even nonsmokers kept ashtrays in their homes for guests who smoked. 8The health risks stare smokers in the face. 8Because of the Minnesota Clean Air Act and other regulations, smokers have fewer places to smoke. A proposed smoking ban in Duluth would limit places where smoking is allowed even further. And many nonsmokers no longer tolerate others' smoke and are not afraid to voice their displeasure.
Smokers are under siege.
That's 20 cents a cigarette. Cigarette taxes, both state and federal, account for 34 percent of the cost. There were more smokers, too. Pat McKone of the American Lung Association said in the early 1960s half the men in this country smoked. The decline, she said, began with the first surgeon general's report on the dangers of smoking in 1964.