October 21, 2011   Progress made in the field of tobacco control is “probably the greatest public health success story of the past half century,” Kenneth Warner ’68, former dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, said in the second annual C. Everett Koop Institute Lecture at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center on Thursday afternoon. Since 1963, half of all individuals in the United States who were addicted to cigarettes have stopped smoking, and the prevalence of smoking throughout the country has decreased by more than 50 percent, Warner said. These trends have saved “millions of lives.”  The image and place of smoking in society has changed forever,” Warner said.

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