The Nation - News from Dec. 24, 1986

A survey indicates that almost 44% of American smokers either stopped smoking or cut down during this year’s Great American Smokeout, the American Cancer Society reported. According to the survey of 1,213 adults, conducted by telephone in the four days after the Nov. 20 Smokeout, 12.8% of American smokers, or 7 million, did not smoke on that day--the same as in 1985. An additional 30.9%, or 16.8 million, cut down, the poll said. That number was up 800,000 from the 1985 Smokeout.