Smoking is nowhere near as popular as it was in decades past. The rate of U.S. adults who smoke has plummeted 74% since 1965 to 11.6% as of 2022, suggesting that the battle to get people to quit smoking (or never start) is all but won. That should mean lung cancer rates have dropped accordingly, right? Overall, that’s true. Since peaking in 1984, the rate of new cases of lung cancer (incidence) has decreased 42% among men. And since peaking in 1998, lung cancer incidence in women has decreased 16%. So, while there has been an overall decline in lung…

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