# Two questions re pr-1964 smoking health hazard awareness **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 31, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-questions-re-pr-1964-smoking-health-hazard-awareness/968889 "2022-07-31T20:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-questions-re-pr-1964-smoking-health-hazard-awareness/968889/42 "2022-08-02T00:50:43Z")
I don’t know if the OP has seen this recent thread, but it’s not too far off the same topic: > [@Why does anyone today under seventy years old smoke cigarettes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-anyone-today-under-seventy-years-old-smoke-cigarettes/960990): > > The Surgeon General’s report on the dangers of smoking came out in 1964. That means if you are under seventy today, you have known about the dangers of smoking since you were twelve, or younger, or all your life. Assuming most people don’t start smoking prior to their twelfth birthday, why is anyone under seventy smoking cigarettes in 2022? Why would you start the habit in the first place, given all the warnings? If I had lived in the mid-1960s, I would have assumed that cigarette smoking wo… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-questions-re-pr-1964-smoking-health-hazard-awareness/968889)._