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EDITORIAL: Smoking: Unexpected cough | Jacksonville.com 

It's a small increase as increases go. Less than 1 percent.

But the news that cigarette smoking among adults went up at all for the first time since 1994 is cause for some alarm. . . .

Of course, there's no price tag that can be put on a decreased quality of life or the related miseries from smoking that smokers and their loved ones may have to endure.

The adult smoking rate has been declining, off and on, since the 1960s, The Associated Press reports. At one time, two of five adult Americans smoked.

But the latest number - even if just a blip on the big picture - shows that prevention programs shouldn't take any vacations.

It's a matter of life and death.

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