One of the greatest public health successes, that is often unheralded, has been the massive decline in smoking rates, which are now translating into reduced deaths from cancer and heart disease.

一个经常被务实的公共健康方面的成就是吸烟者人数的大幅下降，而这种下降现在又带来了由癌症和心脏病引起的死亡率的减少。