Lakeland, Polk County | featured news

The people who grew up watching film and TV stars take long, slow drags on cigarettes, exuding cool, are now in their 60s and and older. They were around in 1964 when the first U.S. surgeon general's report came out about the health effects of smoking. That was the year that then-16-year-old Marcia Cross started smoking. This year, the 68-year-old Lakelander quit. It's been three months since she completed a free smoking cessation program provided through the Florida Department of Health. Two weeks was the longest she had made it before.