The most effective way to reduce smoking related disease in a population is
- A. treating lung cancer at an earlier stage
- B. giving antibiotics to all smokers
- C. preventing people from starting and supporting smokers to quit
- D. switching smokers to cigars
Explanation
Emphysema and cancer are largely irreversible once established, so prevention and cessation save far more lives than treatment of late disease. Cigars carry the same tobacco harms.
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