What's your point? The YoY decline in smoking rates since 1970s is not linear. This stat is effectively meaningless without accounting for the rate of the US p

What's your point? The YoY decline in smoking rates since 1970s is not linear. This stat is effectively meaningless without accounting for the rate of the US pop that develops lung cancer in the first place. If you want to measure treatment effectiveness, then the right measurement is something like '% of US population that develops lung cancer who are effectively treated/cured' and not 'overall cancer death rate'. The fact this headline is so broad when it's really about lung cancer and not all cancers and doesn't account for any factors outside of 'treatment innovation' leads me to believe this was pushed by some healthcare trade group.