FIFTY YEARS OF DATA. “Data on women’s smoking before 1935 are anecdotal. Fortune magazine (Fortune 1935) conducted a national public opinion and consumer preference survey in the 1930s and a national Current Population Survey was performed in 1955, but systematic surveillance of smoking behavior did not begin in the United States until 1965.”
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