{"id":516,"date":"2026-11-19T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-19T05:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:52:17","slug":"today-is-great-american-smokeout-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Great American Smokeout Day Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>G<strong>reat American Smokeout Day<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>hopes to persuade smokers to quit. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The day is always the third Thursday in November.<\/span> The American Cancer Society states that 36.5 million Americans smoke cigarettes. The percentage of Americans smoking has declined from 42 percent in 1965 to 14 percent in 2019. However, the number of people smoking cigars or pipes is rising.\u00a0 Children could visit a website at: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/healthy\/stayawayfromtobacco\/greatamericansmokeout\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great American Smokeout Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great American Smokeout Day\u00a0hopes to persuade smokers to quit. The day is always the third Thursday in November. The American Cancer Society states that 36.5 million Americans smoke cigarettes. The percentage of Americans smoking has declined from 42 percent in 1965 to 14 percent in 2019. However, the number of people smoking cigars or pipes <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=516' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6021,6022],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-great-american-smokeout-day","tag-third-thursday-in-november","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28666,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/28666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}