This is the [vision statement](https://www.cityofmadison.com/parks/about/mission.cfm) that appears on the website of the Madison Parks department.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data regarding varicella (chickenpox) virus incidence and mortality rates.

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/

Related Data Story: State-Level Policies Reduce Smoking Rates Nationwide

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 vaccine in the United States almost everyone had varicella.” [[source](https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt17-varicella.html)]

Since the [first studies were published in 1950 linking tobacco use to lung cancer](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/tobacco/tobacco_history.htm) there has been exponential attention on the issue of smoking. As new research determines links between tobacco-use and harmful side effects such as cancer, policy and disincentives grow in strictness.