The Center for Disease Control, the National Cancer Institute and a multitude of advocacy organizations such as the American Cancer Society have fought for decades to educate Americans about the dangers of smoking, and why it’s best to quit as...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data regarding varicella (chickenpox) virus incidence and mortality rates. *Source:* https://data.cdc.gov/NNDSS/NNDSS-Table-II-Varicella-to-West-Nile-virus-d... [1] *Related Data Story: *An End to...
Statistics on U.S. smoking rates and tobacco taxation rates for all fifty states. *Source:* Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015 https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/state_data/ [1] *Related Data Story: *State-Level Policies...
If you’re an American over the age of 25, you may remember chickenpox -- formally known as the varicella zoster virus -- as an inevitable rite of passage. As the Center for Disease Control has written: “Before the availability of varicella...