An insightful webinar will discuss what America would be like without the taint of cigarette smoke.
The Wednesday webinar is hosted by The Legacy Foundation. Here are the details:
To coincide with a new book recently released by Columbia University Press titled, After Tobacco: What Would Happen if Americans Stopped Smoking?, public health experts will discuss what the nation might look like if and when smoking rates plummet to historic lows. Our panel of experts will consider the social and economic impact of reducing smoking rates and what it will take to reach current national public health goals.
WHY: Over the last ten years, policymakers and public health advocates have taken great - and sometimes controversial - measures to help fight the tobacco epidemic that kills more than 400,000 people every year in the United States. Higher cigarette taxes, expanded clean air laws, smoking cessation and prevention campaigns and programs, new federal regulatory authority over tobacco as well as reduced harm products have potential consequences and benefits for all Americans. Until recently, no study has responded to these concerns by capturing the impact of tobacco control across the nation.
WHO:
* Dr. Nora D. Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
* Dr. Jed E. Rose, Duke Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research, Duke University Medical Center . . .
The panel will be available via webcast at www.legacyforhealth.org or www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=82819 starting at 12:25 p.m. prior to program start.
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