If you look at how many people are smoking in this country compared to other places where the effort is nowhere near as strong, it's gone down dramatically, and I think we're, for the first time, seeing tobacco-caused cancers, particularly lung cancer, beginning to level off and beginning to start to slow down and actually decrease in their incidence and in their death rates.

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There is promise there, particularly in the lung cancer drug crizotinib, which is being submitted to the Food and Drug Administration, and to Prevnar, the vaccine against pneumococcal disease, which is being tested in adults.

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City Councilman James Gennaro, who lost his mother to lung cancer after she smoked for decades, has been a particularly strong advocate.

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In lung cancer, for instance, doctors will fret about safety issues, particularly the rate of serious bleeding.

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Exposure to its tiny fibers, particularly over a period of time, can lead to asbestos-related diseases that include lung cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma, according to the U.S. National Institutes for Health.

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