Smoking prevalence in the U.S. has decreased from 45% to 18% over the past 40 years, and significant advances have been made in drugs to control hypertension and lower ApoB.

“So smoking has gone from 45% of the population to 18% of the population. So we reduced smoking. [...] Think of the litany of drugs we have for controlling hypertension and think about the litany of drugs we have to bring down ApoB.”