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New Yorkers say they won't stop smoking tobacco products during 34th annual Great American Smokeout 

New York City has one of the lowest smoking rates in the country - just 16% - after years of aggressive ad campaigns and strict smoking laws, including the city's groundbreaking smoking ban at bars and restaurants.

A new ad campaign launched this year shows a disgusting blackened lung caused by years of smoking. Previous anti-smoking ads showed a Bronx woman with 20 amputations she said resulted from smoking.

But about 1.3 million New Yorkers still smoke, the Health Department says, and getting the holdouts to kick the habit might be the hardest part.

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