Community health centers provide vital primary care to 20 million patients in more than 8,000 sites across the country, a number expected to double as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes effect. More than 70 percent of thei...
CommentsAs we honor our men and women in uniform this Veterans’ Day, it is alarming how ingrained tobacco usage is in today’s military. The most recent data available indicates that the smoking rate among our servicemen and women was an estimated 31 perc...
CommentsI am writing this post having just returned from the First International Conference on Waterpipe Tobacco Research, which was held in Abu Dhabi on October 21-23. The conference was sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, International Developmen...
CommentsEach Halloween, we dress up with costumes and masks and spook our neighbors for candy. The rest of the year, what’s truly spooky is the number of cigarette butts un-maskedly polluting our beaches and waterways. Cigarette butts are the number one...
CommentsFor those of you in the wider tobacco control and public health communities, we all share in a remarkable journey - as we commit ourselves on a daily basis to the life-saving work of tackling the issue of tobacco use – an issue that continues to...
CommentsAs I reflect upon the last four years, since FDA banned flavored cigarettes, except for menthol, I am struck by how little has been done on the most popular flavor of cigarettes – menthol cigarettes. A couple of weeks ago, in yet another disappo...
CommentsThis October marks the centennial anniversary of America’s “public health enemy number one”: cigarettes. One-hundred years ago, R.J. Reynolds introduced the first modern cigarette, marking the beginning of a new social, economic and health climat...
CommentsAS SEEN ON JOINTOGETHER.ORGLast week, a really important voice in the fight to save lives from tobacco use was silenced. Terrie Hall passed away on Monday, September 16, following years of battling tobacco-related cancer. She was one of the brave...
CommentsLittle is known about the factors that drive the association between point-of-sale marketing and behavior. New research released in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine uses GPS data to describe exposure to point-of-sale tobacco material...
CommentsAS SEEN ON JOINTOGETHER.ORGWatching the Country Music Awards Music Festival broadcast this week from Nashville reminded me that no matter how far we’ve come in changing social norms around tobacco – it remains a marathon, not a sprint.Smoking has...
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