FYI Cali has always had a lower lung cancer rate/smoking rate than the rest of the country. Way before ban smoking in bars (1994) etc.
Clearly I have better research skills than the people at NPR. I found this info within 30 seconds of reading the article.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4947a4.htm
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During 1988--1997, per capita cigarette smoking in California declined more than twice as rapidly compared with the rest of the country (2).
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