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Actor Ray Liotta and cricketer Shane Warne both died from atherosclerosis

Reducing smoking to save lives We’ve fought against smoking for decades, from demonstrating that passive smoking in public places kills, to influencing Government policy. It’s now well-known that smoking kills. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that smoking was proven to lead to heart attacks and stroke. In the 1980s, research started to demonstrate that non-smokers living with smokers were at higher risk of heart and circulatory diseases, as well as other conditions. And so our understanding of the dangers passive smoking began. But it was not until the early 2000s that people understood t...