Podcasts about tobacco free kids

Brian King, Executive Vice President for U.S. Programs at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, explains how state and local programs are the lifeblood of tobacco prevention; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO's Senior Director for Government Affairs, updates us on a busy few weeks in Washington D.C. that have a direct impact on public health; an article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice discusses the role of State and Territorial Health Agencies when it comes to supporting healthy aging; and Dr. Puthiery Va, the Director of the Maine CDC and an ASTHO Member, was a guest speaker for the Maine Health Care Association's “Remember Me” ceremony. World Health Organization Web Page: World No Tobacco Day Tobacco Control Newswork Web Page: The Future of Tobacco Control Relies on OSH Funding ASTHO Blog Article: Tobacco Policy Roundup: Smoking Rates Down but Youth E-Cigarette Use Rising Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids News Release: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Names Brian King as Executive Vice President for U.S. Programs Journal of Public Health Management and Practice Web Page: Supporting Healthy Aging and Older Adult Health – The Role of State and Territorial Health Agencies Maine Health Care Association Web Page: Remember ME 2025 – Celebrating Lifetime Achievements!  

If you use healthcare or live on Planet Earth, you want a comprehensive ban on flavored tobacco products. This podcast is a helpful summary of all the issues wrapped up in flavored tobacco, e-cigarettes and the human, environmental and economic damages of the tobacco industry. Statewide and comprehensive flavored tobacco bans that include menthol, cigars, e-cigarettes and more are simple and potent steps we can all take in our states to protect our kids and environment. Rather than having to listen to 5 different podcasts to get up to speed, this one will catch you up on all the major issues in a tight 20 minutes, so you can be on your way to understanding why this issue matters to you and why it should matter to everyone!I cover tobacco and vaping a great deal on this podcast because tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death, disease and disability in the United States. Anything we can do to decrease its harms improves the health, lives and economy for all of us! I also go through many of the common objections and “whaddabouts” that come up with this concern. Please share this episode!To Do:- If you live in Oregon, contact your State Senator and Representative to ask them to pass a comprehensive flavored tobacco ban.- Post on social media and consider writing an Op-Ed about why you support a ban on flavored nicotine products. - Find out if there is a flavor ban being considered in your county or state, and do what you can to support it. - Learn more about how you or a loved one can break free of the nicotine habit here.- If you are between 50 and 80 years old and currently smoke or have quit within the last 15 years, go to SavedByTheScan.org to find out about whether you should consider lung cancer screening.- Share this episode and post with friends and family and anyone whom you think might be interested. To Learn More- Prior podcast episodes for deep dives on each topic include:A Heartbreaking Trap- episode with a youth pastor who worked for Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids about hx of menthol and other flavored tobacco products, particularly targeted at the Black community. The Route Makes the Poison- Inhaling Flavors with Prof Ilona Jaspers- about difference between eating and inhaling flavoring chemicals.Not Kool- Menthol and Lung Numbing with Prof Svent Jordt- about particular dangers of menthol and numbing products to the lungs, Do the Vape Talk- episode for parents and teachers about talking to kids in their lives about e-cigs and vaping with expertise from American Lung AssociationLearn more about health effects of e-cigarettes in the podcast episode “Gambling with Your Lungs”  A County vs Big Tobacco- Fighting Flavors and Protecting Kids- episode about one of these county level battles from a few years ago that passed and with the current State Senator sponsoring the bill.  If your state or county doesn't have tobacco retail licensing, that is a vital step in knowing what is going on! Listen to the A Teen Talks Vaping episode to learn more. Teens Tackle Tobacco- Butts, E-cigs, Schools and more- with 2 members of Sierra Club youth tobacco project Climate Change, Microplastics and Fires- the EcoToll of Tobacco with the Sierra Club-  more on environmental toll of tobaccoImage of my kids with flavored tobacco products at their eye level at a gas station

CLEO's Susan Glickman talks about climate and energy policy in the context of her 20-plus years of public advocacy work. Susan is the Vice President of Policy & Partnerships at The CLEO Institute. Named to Florida Trend's Inaugural List of 500 Most Influential Business Leaders, Susan has been working on climate and energy issues for more than two decades. She was the Florida Director of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and a consultant to numerous national and state organizations from the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Climate Group, Our Children's Trust, the Center for Climate Integrity, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the National Prostate Cancer Coalition and the Trust for America's Health.  Susan is Vice-President of the Board of SELF – Solar and Energy Loan Fund. They are the lead applicant for Florida's successful Solar for All grant ($156 million for solar for low income families). She is on the Advisory Council for The Invading Sea – an editorial collaborative of Florida's news and editorial outlets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Holman speaks with Jodi Radke, Regional Director for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, from Media Row, at the Grand Hotel, while at the 2024 Mackinac Policy Conference. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Watch MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MichiganbusinessnetworkMBN » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

There's a new product attracting young people to nicotine: pouches! These harmful products join the already popular, dangerous e-cigarettes and flavored vaping products sold across the country. We spoke with Yolanda Richardson, President and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, to get the latest stats on youth addiction to nicotine and how to crack down on the problem. For more information: Tobaccofreekids.org Image Credit: Getty Images

June 7, 2024 ~ The FDA reversed their ban on Juul vape products. Jodi Radke, regional advocacy director for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and co-chair of the Keep MI Kids Tobacco Free Alliance, joins Kevin and Tom to discuss what this means.

John Bowman, Executive Vice President for U.S. Tobacco Programs at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, sounds the alarm about the tobacco industry's relentless drive to encourage young people to use their products; Kayley Humm, ASTHO Senior Analyst on the Overdose Prevention Team, says there is some encouraging news about the rate of overdose deaths;  ASTHO continues its celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month; and learn how to promote healthy aging as a public health priority in an ASTHO learning module now online. ASTHO Legislative Prospectus: Tobacco and Nicotine Products – The Unwavering Public Health Crisis CDC Webpage: Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts ASTHO Webpage: Integrating Healthy Aging into Public Health  

Around 8 million people die because of tobacco consumption every single year, leading the tobacco industry to search for new users. Increasingly, it is targeting youth in the hope of hooking a new generation to tobacco products and creating lifelong consumers. To protect youth from tobacco industry interference, we must ensure that their perspectives are heard.In this episode of Let's Talk Cancer, Cary Adams, CEO of UICC speaks with Agamroop Kaur, National Youth Advocate of the Year of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and​​​​​​ David Planas Maluenda, global health policymaker at the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Zaragoza and Youth Ambassador Against Cancer at the European Cancer Leagues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 29, 2024 ~ Work is being done to lower the tobacco use rate in Michigan, but the bills continue to linger in the Michigan Legislature. Jodi Radke, regional advocacy director for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and co-chair of the Keep MI Kids Tobacco Free Alliance, joins Kevin and Marie to discuss this.

March 8, 2024 - Despite New York banning the sale of flavored vaping products in 2020, Democratic lawmakers and health officials worry that more needs to be done. We talk about additional enforcement tools with Kevin O'Flaherty, director of advocacy for the northeast region of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, and Max Ferris, director of environmental health for the Albany County Health Department.

This week: How are we supposed to navigate this energy transition, AI, and pandemics, if we cannot agree on the most basic, fundamental shit?We argue about tradeoffs or gently suggest expanding the scope of our moral concern to include other people's air, water, food, shelter, and health, instead of simply saying some things — like the lives of children — are simply, emphatically, non-negotiable.Here's What You Can Do:Donate to Tobacco-Free Kids to protect kids from e-cigarettes.Volunteer with Everytown to prevent gun violence in schools.

January 11th marked the 60th anniversary of the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, a national announcement that revealed the dangers of smoking. In 2024, far fewer people are smoking regular cigarettes, but menthol cigarettes and vaping pose concerns, especially for Black communities and youth, and the Biden administration just put off a proposed FDA rule to ban menthol cigarettes. Yolonda Richardson, President and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, joins us to talk about how the Surgeon General's report impacted American behaviors 60 years ago and what issues we still face today when it comes to tobacco and health. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tobacco use is the world's leading cause of preventable death.Since the mid-20th century, the tobacco industry has used deliberate marketing tactics to confuse the public about tobacco's harmful effects, causing billions of deaths globally from tobacco use and second-hand smoke. However, a growing number of countries and organizations around the world are standing up to the tobacco industry and taking strong action.Since its launch in 1995, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has tackled the tobacco industry head on. And since the launch of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use in 2007, the arch of the fight against tobacco has changed drastically – in turn, saving millions of lives. Despite this progress, the data shows that there's still a lot of work to be done. While cigarette use declined exceptionally over the years, the tobacco industry has found ways to reinvent itself through social media ad campaigns and colorful, fun-flavored e-cigarettes tailor made for kids.On this episode, our host Katherine Oliver, sits down with Matt Myers, outgoing President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and Yolonda Richardson, the Campaign's current President, to share more about the arduous battle against the ever-evolving tobacco industry and its deceptive marketing to kids and low-income communities around the world.

In this episode, we're talking about the corrective statement signs that tobacco companies are currently being required to post at the point of sale. These signs are part of the results of a court case decision from 2006 that convicted major tobacco companies of racketeering – for a decades-long conspiracy to deliberately mislead the public about the health risks of smoking and secondhand smoke and about the addictiveness of their deadly products. We'll cover  some background on what led to this requirement, what the requirements really are, and how tobacco prevention and control advocates can use this as an opportunity to work toward change.  Notes:  Read the full text of these court-ordered corrective statements and see images of all 17 point-of-sale signs. Read Judge Kessler's final opinion and the court order History of the case: 23 Year History of the Racketeering Lawsuit Against the Tobacco Industry: Guilty of Deceiving the American Public, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network United States vs. Philip Morris (1999), Public Health Law Center Timeline: United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids U.S. Racketeering Verdict: Big Tobacco Guilty as Charged, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids  Department of Justice Lawsuit Against the Tobacco Industry, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network More on the corrective statements at the point of sale: o   Starting July 1, Tobacco Companies Must Post Signs About Health Risks of Smoking at About 220,000 Stores Across U.S. – Signs Stem from 2006 Racketeering Verdict Against Companies, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids  Media campaign: "Tobacco Stops With Me" Corrective Statement Media Campaign, Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Fund (TSET) 

This week: Because I am a sap, I have been thinking about my kids a lot lately. And kids in general. They're going to grow up and live in a world that's very different from ours, and it's important to me that they're all as ready for that as they can be.So this week: Did you hear about the starfish?Here's What You Can Do:Donate to Tobacco Free Kids to help fight against flavored e-cigarettes.Volunteer with Mothers Out Front and come together to fight against climate injustice and for our children's future.Get educated about how to electrify your child's school, making it cleaner, healthier, and climate-safe with these resources from Rewiring America.Be heard about protecting children from pesticides and urge your representative to support the Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act.Invest in a better world for kids and make sure your philanthropic dollars make a measurable difference with

7.20.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: AL Congressional Maps Redrawn, FL Voting Rights Law, Menthol Cigarettes & Black Health Equity  In Alabama, Republicans pass a proposed congressional map that draws intense criticism from Black lawmakers. An LDF Political Participation Fellow will be here to help us understand the controversy and its impact on voting rights. Tuesday, we told you about Louisiana's Angola State Prison allegations highlighting the treatment of primarily Black boys detained in the former death row building. The Deputy Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project will be here to update us on the case.  Nikki Fried, the head of Florida's Democratic Committee, will join us to discuss the state's voting laws, and the president of Kappa Alpha Psi will explain why they are joining forces to denounce Gov. Ron DeSantis's racist policies. And we're looking at the health disparities associated with tobacco-related illness in the black community. The President and CEO of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids will shed light on the critical importance of eliminating menthol cigarettes and the impact it can have on Black health. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. "See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There's no mystery as to why nicotine vaping suffers a dismal reputation. Non-profits and foundations like Bloomberg Philanthropies, Truth Initiative, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the “body part orgs” have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and applied tremendous pressure to misinform the public and influence policymakers regarding the potential harms of vaping. Veteran reporter Marc Gunther joins us today on RegWatch to discuss the impact of private money in the war on vaping. Gunther has written about politics, government, media, and business for nearly 50 years and is the reporter behind the ground-breaking investigative series “The Great Vape Debate.” Is private money powering the destruction of vaping? Find out! Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com. Released: September 9, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford  https://youtu.be/8YhfZDUJc-Y This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE Make RegWatch happen https://support.regulatorwatch.com

1. Have you heard of New Haven Vet Center? They offer confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Gabe Kautzner with the Vet Center shares all the details. ((00:10)) 2. The governor announced millions of dollars to be invested in the nursing industry in Connecticut. Marcia Proto of the CT Center for Nursing Workforce breaks down what the money will do. ((16:42)) 3. We tackled vaping dangers among teens ahead of the return to school. We spoke with Matt Meyers, who is the President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. ((29:00)) IMAGE CREDIT:  iStock / Getty Images Plus

Wanting more action taken on synthetic nicotine products in stores, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids joins us and talks about what actions the FDA can and, in their minds, should take.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/local-news-live-daily/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

After a two-year review, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it will ban all vaping and e-cigarette products sold by Juul. It's part of a series of more aggressive moves by the FDA to target vaping and smoking. Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, joins William Brangham to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

After a two-year review, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it will ban all vaping and e-cigarette products sold by Juul. It's part of a series of more aggressive moves by the FDA to target vaping and smoking. Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, joins William Brangham to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The Biden administration has announced a plan that will lower the amount of nicotine in products available in the US.Matthew L. Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, speaks with Local News Live about the plan.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/local-news-live-daily/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

I had a few weeks set aside in May to record and wrap up some final podcasts for the season, but COVID 19 had other plans. I instead became the head counselor at “Camp COVID” for my three rambunctious children who rapidly bounced back from their infections with no respect for the time their mother might need to finally taste her coffee again. Enjoy the end of the season thoughts, and will see you next Fall with more Air Health Our Health! To Do over the Summer: Catch up on any podcasts you missed from the first two seasons. Get involved in advocacy at your local, state and federal level to be a voice for clean air, whether working now to get your county or state to consider a flavored nicotine ban in the next legislative session or encouraging a transition away from combustion engines for transportation or from combustion in your own home. Please also consider a donation to the many organizations working hard for clean air! Neighbors for Clean Air- Ashia Allen from “Ashia, Albina & Asthma” is now on the board! American Thoracic Society- I am a member of the Environmental Health Policy Committee, and we work hard to convey the importance of the science of healthy air to our state and federal government, the EPA, Supreme Court, and more Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids- keep working to protect kids from Big Tobacco Look through previous podcast notes for more donation ideas! Join the Air Health Our Health Fight for Air Climb team- climb is on June 26th, though we will be “climbing” virtually, so you can join from anywhere in the world! Take steps on your own time and raise money for the American Lung Association! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit blog post for more information, or go to airhealthourhealth.org. Follow and comment on Facebook page and Instagram. Record a question or comment on the Anchor podcast site or send an e-mail via the website. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth/message

Bill Novelli co-founded Porter Novelli one of the first social marketing companies and now a global PR agency, he started the Business for Impact program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He is formerly the CEO of AARP, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the COO of CARE USA. He's the author of Good Business, The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World and coauthor of Fifty Plus: Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life. He served in and helped reposition and market the Peace Corps and began his career in marketing management at Unilever.“This is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country. So, on the one hand, we know that we have to take personal responsibility for ourselves, our own health, our families – it's up to us. As some people like to say, you're on your own. And we have to balance that against the concept that we're all in this together. You know, the idea that it takes a village and both sides essentially disrespect the other side. They criticize the other side. No, we're not in this together. It's your own responsibility, and vice versa. If we're going to be good citizens, and we're going to make progress, we have to see both sides of that equation. That's not easy to do.”· businessforimpact.georgetown.edu/· www.billnovelli.comBusiness & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk.

Bill Novelli co-founded Porter Novelli one of the first social marketing companies and now a global PR agency, he started the Business for Impact program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He is formerly the CEO of AARP, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the COO of CARE USA. He's the author of Good Business, The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World and coauthor of Fifty Plus: Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life. He served in and helped reposition and market the Peace Corps and began his career in marketing management at Unilever.“This is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country. So, on the one hand, we know that we have to take personal responsibility for ourselves, our own health, our families – it's up to us. As some people like to say, you're on your own. And we have to balance that against the concept that we're all in this together. You know, the idea that it takes a village and both sides essentially disrespect the other side. They criticize the other side. No, we're not in this together. It's your own responsibility, and vice versa. If we're going to be good citizens, and we're going to make progress, we have to see both sides of that equation. That's not easy to do.”· businessforimpact.georgetown.edu/· www.billnovelli.comBusiness & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk.

Bill Novelli co-founded Porter Novelli one of the first social marketing companies and now a global PR agency, he started the Business for Impact program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He is formerly the CEO of AARP, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the COO of CARE USA. He's the author of Good Business, The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World and coauthor of Fifty Plus: Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life. He served in and helped reposition and market the Peace Corps and began his career in marketing management at Unilever.“This is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country. So, on the one hand, we know that we have to take personal responsibility for ourselves, our own health, our families – it's up to us. As some people like to say, you're on your own. And we have to balance that against the concept that we're all in this together. You know, the idea that it takes a village and both sides essentially disrespect the other side. They criticize the other side. No, we're not in this together. It's your own responsibility, and vice versa. If we're going to be good citizens, and we're going to make progress, we have to see both sides of that equation. That's not easy to do.”· businessforimpact.georgetown.edu/· www.billnovelli.comBusiness & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk.

Bill Novelli co-founded Porter Novelli one of the first social marketing companies and now a global PR agency, he started the Business for Impact program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He is formerly the CEO of AARP, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the COO of CARE USA. He's the author of Good Business, The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World and coauthor of Fifty Plus: Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life. He served in and helped reposition and market the Peace Corps and began his career in marketing management at Unilever.“This is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country. So, on the one hand, we know that we have to take personal responsibility for ourselves, our own health, our families – it's up to us. As some people like to say, you're on your own. And we have to balance that against the concept that we're all in this together. You know, the idea that it takes a village and both sides essentially disrespect the other side. They criticize the other side. No, we're not in this together. It's your own responsibility, and vice versa. If we're going to be good citizens, and we're going to make progress, we have to see both sides of that equation. That's not easy to do.”· businessforimpact.georgetown.edu/· www.billnovelli.comBusiness & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk.

Bill Novelli co-founded Porter Novelli one of the first social marketing companies and now a global PR agency, he started the Business for Impact program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He is formerly the CEO of AARP, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the COO of CARE USA. He's the author of Good Business, The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World and coauthor of Fifty Plus: Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life. He served in and helped reposition and market the Peace Corps and began his career in marketing management at Unilever.“This is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country. So, on the one hand, we know that we have to take personal responsibility for ourselves, our own health, our families – it's up to us. As some people like to say, you're on your own. And we have to balance that against the concept that we're all in this together. You know, the idea that it takes a village and both sides essentially disrespect the other side. They criticize the other side. No, we're not in this together. It's your own responsibility, and vice versa. If we're going to be good citizens, and we're going to make progress, we have to see both sides of that equation. That's not easy to do.”· businessforimpact.georgetown.edu/· www.billnovelli.comBusiness & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk.

“Perhaps it's time for CTFK to return to the negotiating table to reduce the number of people who smoke by guaranteeing adults access to safer tobacco alternatives, including flavored vapor products.” ~ Kim Murray

Kyra Mckinley goes over Colorado State University campus news with updates on the implementation of NetID. Then, Ellie Shannon covers local news with details on Windsor widening more roads. Kota Babcock goes over new updates in COVID-19 pandemic statistics and policies. Babcock then speaks to Colorado State Representative Lisa Cutter about wildfire prevention legislation.Then, Babcock goes over information on the investigation of Supreme Court drafts and how one hospital is being sued for racism leading to the death of a Black woman. After that, listeners hear from Matthew Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids about the prohibition on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. Eliza Drotar goes over updates in CSU sports, including details on Rams football. To conclude the show, Shannon explains updates in technology with details on SpaceX.

Matthew Myers sits down to chat with Susie Jones about the FDA's proposed ban on flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes. What impact this could have on the tobacco industry and the nation's health. 

Matthew L. Myers, President for the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, discusses the findings of their latest report.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is "The Leading Voices in Food" podcast but today we're speaking with a leading voice in tobacco control. "How come," you might ask, "why?" So I believe for many years that the parallels between the tobacco industry and food industry practices are nothing short of stunning, and that our field would do very well to learn lessons learned from the pioneers in the tobacco wars. Our guest today is Dr. Kenneth Warner, Distinguished Emeritus Professor and former Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Ken's research focuses on the economic and policy aspects of tobacco and health. Interview Summary   So Ken, you and I have a long history, and I thought it might be instructive to mention just a little bit of it because you really helped shape some of the ways I think about addressing food policy. So I first became familiar with your work long before I met you in person, when I was teaching classes at Yale. I was assigning papers you wrote on tobacco control and I was especially interested in work that you'd done on tobacco taxes. It really gave me the idea of pushing ahead with food-related taxes. Then finally I got a chance to meet you in person at a meeting that was hosted by the first President George Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, on cancer control. You and I got to talking about similarities between the tobacco industry behavior and the way the food industry was behaving. We were both struck by the similarities. That led us to write a paper together that was published in 2009 in "The Milbank Quarterly." And I have to say, of all the papers I've published over my career, this was one of my favorites because I really enjoyed working with you. I learned a ton from it, and it really, I thought, made some very important points. And I'd just like to mention the title of that paper because it pretty much summarizes what it found. So the title was, "The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food?" In my mind, the playbooks are still very similar, and that's why it's really interesting to talk to you today, get a little sense of what's happening more recently, and importantly, think about what lessons are learned from tobacco control. I wanted to bring up one thing from that paper that I always found fascinating, which was the discussion about something called "The Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers." Could you describe what that was and what role you think it played in history?   Sure. Just to give you some context for it, the first two major papers that implicated smoking in lung cancer were published in major medical journals in 1950. In December of 1952 there was an article in the "Reader's Digest," which incidentally was the only major magazine that did not accept cigarette advertising, that was entitled, "Cancer by the Carton." And this was the American public's first real exposure to the risks associated with smoking, and it led to a two-year decline in cigarette smoking, a very sharp decline, something that was unprecedented in the history of the cigarette. Following that there was some research published on mice and cancer. And needless to say, the tobacco industry was getting pretty nervous about this. So the executives of all the major tobacco firms met in New York City in December of 1953, and they collaborated on what became a public relations strategy, which drove their behavior for many years thereafter. The first thing they did was to publish "A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers" in January of 1954. This "Frank Statement" was published in over 400 magazines and newspapers, and it reached an estimated audience of some 80 million Americans, which would be a very good percentage of all Americans in those years. And they talked about the fact that there was this evidence out there, but they said, "We feel it is in the public interest," this is a quote, "to call attention to the fact that eminent doctors and research scientists have publicly questioned the claimed significance of this research." Then they went on to say, and I quote again, "We accept an interest in people's health as a basic responsibility, paramount to every other consideration in our business. We believe the products we make are not injurious to health and," and this is the kicker, "we always have and always will cooperate closely with those whose task it is to safeguard the public health," end quote. They went on to say that they would support research on smoking and health, and, of course, that they would always be the good guys in this story. This was designed as part of a strategy to obfuscate, to deceive the public, basically, to lie about what they already knew about the health hazards associated with smoking. And it was essentially a first very public step in a campaign that, one could argue, in many ways has persisted ever since, although, obviously, now the tobacco companies admit that they're killing their customers and they admit that smoking causes cancer and heart disease and lung disease and so on. But that was kind of the beginning of the strategy that drove their behavior for decades.   You know, that was one of the issues we raised in our paper. How similar were the big food companies in talking about concern for the health of their customers, planting doubt with the science, pledging to make changes that were in the interest of public health, agreeing to collaborate with public health officials? All those things played out in the food arena as well. And that's just one of many places where the food industry behave very, very similar to what the tobacco industry has done. But boy, is it interesting to hear that particular anecdote and to learn of the cynical behavior of the industry. So fast forward from there, and you think about the tobacco industry executives testifying before Congress that nicotine wasn't addictive, and you have that same process playing out many years later. These similarities are really remarkable.   So let's talk about your work and some of the issues that I think apply to the food area, and let's talk about taxes at the beginning. So I worked for years on the issue of soda taxes, and these taxes now exist in more than 50 countries around the world and in a number of major cities in the US, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Oakland. And these taxes have been shown to have really positive effects, and they seem to be growing around the world. And I'd like to understand what you see as the overall findings from the work on tobacco taxes. But before we do that, you have a very interesting story to tell about how the tobacco control community responded when you first began speaking about taxes. It turns out to be taxes on tobacco have had whopping effects. But what was the initial reaction to people in that field?   Yeah, it is kind of an interesting story. So around 1980, when I first started writing and talking about tobacco taxation as a method of reducing smoking, I used to have public health audiences booing me. If they had rotten tomatoes with them, they would have been throwing them.   You know, Ken, it's hard to imagine because now these taxes are completely routine and accepted.   Yes, they're not only routine and accepted, they are a first principle of tobacco control. They are enshrined in the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. So they really are kind of the first thing we turn to because we know that they work. We know that they reduce smoking.   But let me give you a story about how I learned that this is not only a phenomenon with people smoking. It's a phenomenon with people using all other drugs, and it turns out it's a trans-species law, the Law of Demand. And that law says, basically, that if you increase price, the demand for the commodity will decrease. Well, in the beginning, the public health audiences believed two things. They believed that smokers were so addicted that they would not be affected by price, so it was ridiculous to even think about it. And they said, you have to have intrinsic motivators to get people to quit smoking. They have to care about their kids. They want to see their kids grow up, their spouses, and so on, and not extrinsic forces like a tax. So those were their two objections. So the story that I think is really kind of fun. I was on a plane flying to a small conference in Kansas City. This is sometime in the early '80s. And I happened to be seated next to Jack Henningfield, who is probably the preeminent psychopharmacologist dealing with nicotine, maybe in the world. And we were talking about price response, the fact that cigarette taxes work. And he said, "You know, I've got something I want to show you here." And he pulled out some what are called response cost curves from the psychology literature. And this is where you take a laboratory animal, in this instance addicted to narcotics or other addictive substances, and you give them a challenge to get their drugs. So first, I should note that these animals are so addicted that if they're given the choice between food and their drug, they will choose their drug, and they will in fact end up dying because they place a preference for the drug over food. But it turns out that when you increase the price of the drug to them, they decrease the amount that they consume. So what do I mean by that? If they have to push a lever, a bar, a certain number of times to get a dose of their drug, and you raise the number of bar pushes per dose, they will dose themselves with fewer doses. I took a look at these curves, and basically, a response cost curve for these lab animals is essentially a demand curve as we economists see it. And I calculated the price elasticity of demand, which is our standard measure of the responsiveness to price. And it turns out that addicted laboratory rats have essentially the same price elasticity of demand, the same price responsiveness that human beings do to cigarettes.   That's an absolutely fascinating story. And, you know, I know Jack, and have admired his work, as you have, and it's amazing to think about that conversation on a plane, and what sort of scientific work it led to, and how that, in turn, found its way into policies that exist around the world. So tell us then about tobacco taxes, and how high do they have to be in order to affect consumption in an appreciable way, and have they worked in reducing tobacco use, and what's your overall take on that?   So we have, quite literally, hundreds of studies in countries around the world, and we know a lot but we don't know everything. So we don't know, for example, if there's a particular price above which, you know, nobody will use the product. We don't have even really good data suggesting of, you know, what's the minimum increase in price that you have to have to have a noticeable impact. Overall, the literature suggests that if you increase the price of cigarettes by 10%, you will decrease the quantity demanded by 3 to 4%. Now, what this means is that roughly half of that decreased demand reflects decreases in the number of cigarettes that continuing smokers use, while the other half represents decreases in smoking, people quitting or kids not starting. So the demand is what we call price inelastic. The price change itself is larger, proportionately, than the decrease in consumption. But that decrease in consumption is still substantial and it's enough to have a large impact.   Now, cigarette prices vary all over the world, and cigarette prices vary primarily because of taxation differences. So if you go to the Scandinavian countries, you'll find that a pack of cigarettes will run $15 or more. If you go to Australia, you're looking at $30 or more a pack. In the US, currently, we're looking at an average price in the range of about 7 to $8. In some jurisdictions, like New York City, it's $10 or more. But the prices in the US are actually relatively low among the more developed nations in the world. Any tax increase will have an impact but obviously the larger tax increases will have larger impacts. And there's some good and bad news in tobacco taxation, particularly in a country like ours, and this is, again, true for most of the developed world. Smoking is now concentrated in marginalized populations. I'm talking about low socioeconomic groups, the LGBTQ community, and racial minorities, in particular. If you think of this as an economic phenomenon, when you raise the price on cigarettes, you're going to hit the worst-off economically segments of the population hard. That's the bad news. The good news is that those people, precisely because they are poor, tend to be much more price responsive than high-income smokers, and more of them will quit. So we have this problem that the tax is regressive, it imposes a larger burden on the poor, but the health effect is progressive. It will reduce the gap between the rich and poor in terms of smoking rates. And of great importance, there's an enormous gap between the rich and poor in this country in life expectancy, and as much as half of that may be differences in smoking rates.   Ken, there's a hundred follow-up questions I could ask, and I find this discussion absolutely fascinating. One thing that came into my mind was that some years ago I looked at the relationship of taxes, state by state in the US, and rates of disease like lung cancer and heart disease. And there was plenty of data because there was a huge range in tobacco taxes. Places like New York and Rhode Island had very high taxes, and the tobacco Southern states, like North Carolina, had very low taxes. But what's the sort of recent take on that, and the relationship between taxes and actual disease?   Well, it's still true. And there are, in fact, what you suggest, the southeastern block of tobacco states have unusually low rates of taxation. And I haven't seen any recent data but one presumes that they are suffering more from smoking-related diseases because their smoking rates are higher. I mean, that has to be true. So I don't know that we have any particularly good data recently, but there have been studies that clearly relate tobacco or cigarette prices to health outcomes associated with smoking.   I'm assuming US scientists have played a prominent role in producing the literature showing the negative health consequences of using cigarettes, and yet you said the United States has relatively low taxes compared to other developed countries. Why, do you think?   I think we're going to get into a very philosophical discussion about the US right here. It has to do with individual responsibility. We know for sure that the initial reason the taxes were so low was that the tobacco block was so influential in the Senate, particularly in the days when Jesse Helms, the senator from North Carolina, was in the Senate. He was the most feared senator by the other senators, and if you wanted to get anything done for your cause, you had to go along with his cause, which was keeping cigarette prices low and doing everything they could to support smoking. So there's clearly been a built-in bias in the Senate, and basically in the Congress as a whole, against tobacco policy. You see a huge variation from state to state in tobacco policies, and it's reflective of basically their political leanings in general.   You brought up this issue of personal responsibility, and boy, does that apply in the food area. You know, the food companies are saying: if you have one sugar beverage every once in a while, it's not going to be harmful. And it's not use of the products but it is overuse of the products. Thereby saying, it's not corporate responsibility we're talking about here, it's personal responsibility. That same argument was made by the tobacco industry, wasn't it?   It was. They would be less inclined to do that today, for a couple of reasons. One is that we know that even low levels of smoking are harmful and indeed cause many of the diseases that we were referring to earlier. And I think all the companies have now admitted publicly that smoking does cause all of these diseases that we've long known it causes. And all of them are claiming that they would like to move away from a society with smoking to one that has alternative products that would give people choices and ways to get their nicotine without exposing themselves to so much risk. I mean, we have to remember, the fact that cigarettes kill their consumers is a real drawback as far as the industry is concerned because they're losing a lot of their consumers, you know, 10, 20 years before they normally would, and they have to deal with all these lawsuits. So it's unfortunate for them. Having said that, cigarettes are the goose that lays the golden egg. They cost very little to manufacture. The industry is sufficiently oligopolistic that the profits are enormous, and their profitability has continued even while smoking has dropped rather precipitously ever since the mid-1960s.   Is that because the markets outside the US have been growing?   They certainly have helped. Although now, and this is only true within the last few years, the aggregate cigarette sales in the world are declining. They've actually started dropping. So we were seeing a relatively stable situation as smoking decreased in the developed world and was rising in the developing world. The only place now where we're seeing increases in smoking are areas in Africa, which, by the way, is the one place in the world where we might be able to forego the tobacco epidemic because smoking rates are still quite low in most of the countries, not all of them, and also parts of the Middle East. But elsewhere we've been seeing smoking declining all over the world. That doesn't mean the profits have to drop because one thing that the companies can do, is, they can raise their prices. Now, if prices go up because of taxes that hurts the companies. But if they raise their own prices because demand is inelastic, what that means is that the percentage increase in the price is larger than the percentage decline in the demand for cigarettes. So they're actually adding to their profitability by doing that. They've always played this very interesting game for years of keeping price below what we would think to be the profit-maximizing price. And I think the reason for that has to do with addiction because they know that they have to have what are called replacement smokers, kids coming in to take the place of the smokers who are dying or quitting. And for years, I think, they kept their prices down because they didn't want to discourage young people from smoking. Now, I think they see the writing on the wall. Smoking is declining very rapidly. Smoking prevalence, which was 45% in the mid, early-1960s, is now a little over 12% in the US, and I think they're raising their prices with the understanding that they want to take as much advantage of the opportunity with the addicted smokers, the adults, as they possibly can, even though smoking among kids is becoming vanishingly small.   I think of so many parallels with the soda taxes that now exists in a number of places, and the companies have responded somewhat differently. And perhaps it's the level of addiction issue that kicks in here, and the need to have replacement customers. Maybe that's another key difference. But with the soda taxes, the companies have not increased prices beyond the level of the tax. You know, to delight of public health experts, the companies have tended to pass along the entire tax so the companies are not eating that difference in order to keep prices the same. Higher tax gets reflected in the ultimate price that they charge, but they're not increasing prices beyond that. Do you think it might be the addiction issue that's different here?   I don't know. I mean, that certainly could be an element of it. The other thing is that they're manufacturing other drinks that are being used in place of some of the sodas. So they've got waters, they've got juices. I mean, obviously these sugary juices are no better, but they do make other products. They make the diet drinks. And to the extent that they can find substitutes for those products within their own companies, it may be that they're content to allow people to make those substitutions.   Interesting comment. The results so far on the soda tax suggest that the most common substitution as people drink less soda, is water, which is of course better than a lot of the alternatives that people might be consuming, so that's a bit of really good news. Even though the companies do sell water, Coke and Pepsi have Aquafina and Dasani, for example, they face a basic problem. Number one is that these companies are the biggest sellers of sugary beverages but not bottled water. That happens to be Nestle. So if people migrate to bottled water, they're likely to migrate from the big companies, like Coke and Pepsi, to Nestle. Also, people tend not to be very brand-loyal to water. They tend to buy whatever is on sale or whatever they find available to them, and that creates a problem for these companies like Coke and Pepsi that do rely on brand loyalty for their marketing. So it's very interesting. And also, I wonder, based on the research on food and addiction, if the companies don't take a hit if people switch from full sugar beverages even to diet beverages that they might sell because there wouldn't be as much addictive potential, and therefore the customers wouldn't have to have as much just to keep the habit going. So it's really interesting to think this through.   That's certainly very plausible. The whole thing would also depend on the price elasticity of demand for sodas, and specifically for the brands that they're concerned about. If there is greater elasticity there than what we observe for cigarettes, then raising those prices aren't necessarily going to help them all that much.   You mentioned that the elasticity estimates for tobacco suggested that a 10% increase in price led to a 3 to 4% reduction in consumption, and the numbers are even more positive in the case of the sugar beverages, where if you get a 10%, 15% increase in price, you end up with 10, 15% reduction in consumption. So that's good news in the food arena.   That's good news but it also means that they can't do as easily what the tobacco industry can do, which is to raise their prices and expect to see profits rise. Because if they're losing as much in sales as they're gaining in price, it's no win.   So Ken, let's talk about product formulation because you mentioned that earlier, and this is a really interesting issue that, again, connects tobacco and food products. So you think about the tobacco companies mainly selling cigarettes, but now there's vaping, there's cigarettes with things like menthol and other flavors, or low-fat foods, or artificial sweeteners. The list of product reformulations in order to attract customers goes on and on and on. So I know a controversial topic in your field has been e-cigarettes. Can you explain what these are?   E-cigarettes have been around now for about a decade, let's say. Basically, they're devices that allow people to inhale nicotine and other substances, but the purpose is to give them their nicotine without combustion. And we know that the major problem associated with smoking is the products of combustion. There's 7,000 chemical compounds in cigarette smoke. 70 of them are known human carcinogens, causes of cancer in humans. Many of them are cardiotoxic. They cause lung disease and so on. The e-cigarettes have about two orders of magnitude fewer toxins in their emissions than do cigarettes. And it turns out that the amount of the comparable toxins, when they are in fact comparable, that you find in the e-cigarette emissions is much lower, usually a 10th to a 400th, of what you find in cigarette smoke.   So logically, and based on a fair body of evidence at this point, vaping, use of e-cigarettes to get nicotine, is substantially less dangerous than is cigarette smoking. However, the controversy here is incredible. This is the most divisive issue that I have witnessed in my 45 years of working in the tobacco control field. It has torn the field asunder. The mainstream of public health, and by that I'm including governmental agencies, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the Truth Initiative, the American Cancer Society, heart and lung associations, all of mainstream public health is strongly opposed to e-cigarettes, and for one reason. They're concerned about kids' uptake of e-cigarettes, which has been substantial. It's been decreasing the last couple of years, but it has been substantial. And there are a number of things they're concerned about in that regard, and they're completely ignoring the fact that there's pretty good evidence that e-cigarettes are increasing smoking cessation for a subset of smokers. And a number of us on the science side of this, believe that the net effect of e-cigarettes is beneficial, that it's actually, possibly, a tool to add to the armamentarium of things like cigarette taxation, like smoke-free workplaces, like restrictions on advertising, and that it will help a group of inveterate smokers, those who either can't quit nicotine or don't want to, to move to a less dangerous alternative to smoking. I am not saying that e-cigarettes have no risk associated with them. They almost certainly do. But it is substantially lower.   Now, historically, this is divisive within the field in part because all of the earlier attempts at, quote-unquote, tobacco harm reduction have been produced by the major cigarette companies, and they've been fraudulent. So cigarette filters were manufactured and sold, starting in the 1950s, in response to the scare that I referred to earlier about cancer. And they were sold with a message that the filters block the dangerous stuff but let the flavor through. And people bought this. That decrease in smoking in the early 1950s reversed, smoking went up sharply, as sales of filtered cigarettes went up. By the way, the first successful filtered cigarette was Kent, and it used what it referred to as the miracle Micronite filter. Well, that miracle Micronite filter turns out to have been made of asbestos. And there are lawsuits continuing to the present day by workers in the factories that made the filter tips for Kent cigarettes, who themselves ended up with lung cancer or other diseases due to the asbestos. Then came low-tar and nicotine cigarettes, and we actually have ample evidence from the documents that had been revealed by lawsuits, that the industry knew that this was a public relations device. It was not a harm reduction device. And in fact, because people believed that low-tar and nicotine cigarettes were less dangerous, it's likely that it actually increased the toll of smoking because people who would have quit, switched to low-tar and nicotine cigarettes instead. So there's some pretty awful history here that makes people legitimately concerned about alternative products. A critical element of this story is that the alternative products, in this case, the e-cigarettes were introduced by non-cigarette, non-tobacco companies, and their goal was to replace smoking. Now the major companies are all making their own e-cigarettes as well because they have to do it from a defensive point of view, but basically they don't have any great interest in slowing up the sale of cigarettes. They want to benefit from that as long as they can.   So I should know the answer to this but I don't, but are e-cigarettes taxed? And wouldn't it be optimal to tax e-cigarettes but less than regular cigarettes so you discourage use of both but discourage the use of regular cigarettes more?   That is very insightful. Two colleagues and I actually published a paper saying that in 2015 in "The New England Journal of Medicine," that we should be taxing e-cigarettes modestly, the reason being that we want to discourage kids from using them, and kids are far more price-sensitive than our adults. Kids have a very elastic response to cigarette prices. Adults do not, and in particular, older adults have even lower price responsiveness. So yes, there should be some taxation of e-cigarettes to discourage youth use of it but that taxation should be dramatically lower than the taxation of cigarettes. Some states are now taxing e-cigarettes. Not all of them. The federal government is actually looking into a proposal to double the tax, the federal tax, on cigarettes, which would take it up to $2.01 a pack, and at the same time, to establish an equivalent tax, similar to the $2 tax, on all vaping products. This would be a disaster because it would definitely discourage kids from vaping, but it would also discourage adults from using e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking, and the most addicted, the inveterate smokers, those are the ones that need these alternatives. So that's a bad policy proposal. A much better one would be to increase the cigarette tax by more than a dollar, raise it to 3 or $4 or something, and impose a modest tax on e-cigarettes. This would discourage people from smoking, both adults and kids, but especially kids. It would discourage kids from using e-cigarettes but it would create a price differential that would encourage the inveterate smokers to switch to e-cigarettes. Now, part of the problem, and this has gotten worse over time, is that the American public believes that e-cigarettes, that vaping, is as dangerous and even maybe more dangerous than cigarette smoking. Nothing could be further from the truth but so far the mainstream of public health has sold that message to the public, and the public, including smokers, believe it.   That's a fascinating story about how the public health field might be getting in its own way with this.   And maybe doing damage to public health.   So let's loop back a little bit to the behavior of the tobacco industry. So in 2017, the Phillip Morris Company funded and launched an organization called Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. So I think, hmm, a tobacco company saying they want less smoking, and one could view this with pretty high cynicism but what do you think about it?   I've always shared your sense of cynicism about it. There's an interesting anecdote related to this. The individual who negotiated the deal by which Phillip Morris offered $1 billion over a 12-year period to establish this foundation, that individual was the main actor in the World Health Organization during the development of the global treaty on tobacco control, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He also became director of the organization and served in that capacity until just the other day. He has stepped down from being director. But let me give you a little context for it. Philip Morris International that needs to be distinguished from Altria and Philip Morris Domestic, but Philip Morris International sells the leading brand of what is known as heated tobacco products, HTPs. These are products that actually have tobacco in them. E-cigarettes have no tobacco in them but these products actually have tobacco in them. But instead of burning the tobacco, they heat it. They volatilize it, and the nicotine is inhaled. Like e-cigarettes, they appear to be substantially less dangerous than smoking, although it's not clear that they're as less dangerous as, than, e-cigarettes. But they're produced only by the major cigarette companies. Philip Morris is now selling these products successfully in many countries, many cities around the world. While they actually have the authorization to sell an older version of the product in the US, it's not very popular at this point. But in Japan, over the last four years there's been a drop in cigarettes sold of about a third at the same time that there's been this great increase in the use of these heated tobacco products manufactured by Philip Morris International and by Japan Tobacco. They have a product called Ploom. Philip Morris' product is called IQOS, I-Q-O-S, which, I was told, originally stood for I Quit Ordinary Smoking. So they are the leader of the theme song that the industry is singing these days about how they want a smoke-free world and they want to move toward one. But the only way they're ever going to do that, willingly, is if they can sell other products like these heated tobacco products and make large sums of money on them. Philip Morris has a good start at that. They claim that about a third of their revenue now is coming from IQOS, this heated tobacco product.   So whether that foundation ultimately has beneficial effects or not, forget corporate beneficial effects but on the public good, would pretty much depend on who's choosing to use these e-cigarettes, I'm imagining. That if it's people switching from normal cigarettes to them, or using them instead of normal cigarettes, it's one thing. But if they're recruiting new people who otherwise wouldn't smoke, then it would be a bad thing. So how do you think that'll all play out?   That's actually a critically important question, Kelly. And one of the great concerns that the opposition to e-cigarettes has, is that they're addicting lots of kids to nicotine, and that many of them will go on to smoke, and that that will reverse the progress that we made on smoking. Now, it turns out that there is no evidence to support the latter contention. And in fact, there's evidence to the contrary. I think it's entirely possible that some kids who would not have touched a cigarette otherwise are vaping and then trying cigarettes in the future. Whether they become regular smokers, remains to be seen. But I think there certainly are some kids like that. But what we do know is that the rate of smoking among kids, what we call current smoking, and smoking among kids means that they've had at least one puff on a cigarette in the last 30 days, that number has plummeted over the last quarter century, and, and this is the interesting thing, it has gone down at its fastest rate precisely during the period in which vaping has been popular among kids.   So one theory is that vaping is displacing smoking to some extent. That kids who would've smoked are vaping instead. It's a very complicated area and we don't know the answer. Among adults who vape, and they are relatively few in number except for very young adults, we observe mostly dual use, but the question is how much of this is a transition to vaping only, and then, maybe, a transition to nothing after that. In the UK, where vaping has been advertised by the health organizations as a way to quit smoking, and they have encouraged its use, and they use it in their smoking cessation clinics, and you'll even find it in hospitals, in the UK we have seen that more than half of the people who have quit smoking by using e-cigarettes have also quit vaping. So it is no longer the case in the UK that a majority of the people who vape are also currently smoking.   In the US, the data have been moving in that direction but it's still a majority who are dual users rather than vaping only. But we have evidence of four or five completely different kinds of studies, commercial data, other products in other countries, that all lead to the conclusion that vaping is already increasing the rate of smoking cessation in the US and in the UK by probably 10 to 15%. That's a hard thing to see in the data but it is something that, if you dig into the data, you will see it, and as I say, we see it all over the place. Let me give you one example of the tobacco harm reduction story that's fabulous. 40 to 50 years ago, large numbers of Swedish males started using a smokeless tobacco product called snus, S-N-U-S. It's a relatively low nitrosamine product, nitrosamine being a carcinogenic element, and they substituted it for cigarettes largely because cigarette taxes were going way up and there weren't any significant taxes on snus. So what you observe today, some three, four decades or more later, is that Swedish males have the lowest male smoking rate of any country in Europe, and maybe in the world. They do not have a low tobacco use rate. Their tobacco use rate is pretty typical but it consists mostly of snus. And they also have by far the lowest rate of tobacco-related diseases, like lung cancer, of men in all of the European Union countries, and the second lowest is typically a rate twice or more that of what you see in the Swedish males. Swedish females, who did not quit smoking in large numbers and did not take up snus until fairly recently, have rates of lung cancer and other diseases that are average or above-average for the European Union. So that's a great example of tobacco harm reduction in action, and it's one that's been around now, as I say, for decades.   Ken, this is a remarkable history and you're just bringing it alive beautifully. But let me ask you one final question. So given that you've been working in this field for more than four decades now, and have really been a pioneer, a leader, a warrior, and a hero, all those things could be applied to you and your work, if I asked you to sum up what's been learned from all these decades of work on tobacco, what would you say?   There are a lot of lesson. Certainly, we have learned specific kinds of interventions that really matter. You and I spoke about tax at some length. That's the preeminent one. Smoke-free workplaces, including smoke-free restaurants and bars, have not only themselves had a direct impact on health but have also set the tone for a more smoke-free society. So we have seen quite dramatic changes. I mentioned we're going from a 45% rate of smoking for the nation as a whole down to a little over 12%. That, however, has taken us six to seven decades. So it's kind of a good news, bad news story. It's a very complicated area. Tobacco control was ranked by CDC as one of the 10 most important public health measures of the 20th century, and also the first decade of the 21st century. And I think that's completely legitimate, and it is something about which all of us who care about public health can feel very proud about. The problem still remains. It is an enormous problem, as you alluded earlier, in many parts of the developing world, the low- and middle-income countries, and it's a growing problem in some of those countries, and it's just not going to disappear real fast. The lesson that I've taken most recently has been a discouraging one, and that's how divisive our field has become. We really have a chasm between the people who are opposed to tobacco harm reduction and those who are supportive of it. They're good people on both sides, they believe what they're saying, but they can't talk to each other civilly at this point. I hope that that will not become the case for those of you who are fighting the good fight in dealing with unhealthy foods.   Bio   Kenneth E. Warner is the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Dean Emeritus at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. A member of the faculty from 1972-2017, he served as Dean from 2005-2010. Presented in over 275 professional publications, Dr. Warner's research has focused on economic and policy aspects of tobacco and health. Dr. Warner served as the World Bank's representative to negotiations on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, WHO's first global health treaty. He also served as the Senior Scientific Editor of the 25th anniversary Surgeon General's report on smoking and health. From 2004-2005 he was President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). He currently serves on the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. In 1996 Dr. Warner was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He is a recipient of the Surgeon General's Medallion, the Luther Terry Award for Exemplary Achievement in Tobacco Control, and the Doll-Wynder Award from SRNT. Dr. Warner earned his AB from Dartmouth College and MPhil and PhD in economics from Yale University.  

We've talked about trying to approach youth #vaping from a position of compassion. Discussed that some people use #nicotine because they need it. Those living with #neurodiversity, stress, and abuse smoke or #vape to cope with a world they feel separated from.This week a school principal victimized a student he suspected had a #vaping device hidden in his pants. We'll review that and a few other stories of kids being assaulted by adults over fear of #vaping.Stanford University has decided that Bloomberg, Truth, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids aren't advertising #vaping to kids good enough so they have created a video game targeted to tell kids all about #ecigs.We could have told you this.....wait, we actually already did but a new study is out concluding that kids that #vape either were smokers or would have smoked if they hadn't discovered vaping instead, and that vaping probably will help them stop smoking.We'll also mention MDO court stuff and other things that come up between now and then.Join us at 10pm Eastern tonight on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Ritney Castine joins me today to talk kids, tobacco, and flavors, and also about the time he had to lobby a smoking Senator and future President! He is the former Managing Director of Community and Youth Engagement at Truth Initiative, a Washington, DC-based public health organization and also the former Director of Youth Advocacy at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. He currently works with Center for Black Health and Equity, and is a fellow podcaster as a cohost of the Black Body Health podcast. He is the youth pastor at Trinity Church in Gonzales, LA, and we dive into what we can do as parents, communities, and churches to help break free of tobacco. To Do: 1- Advocate for flavor bans and menthol bans in your community. Often these can be done at the county level. I have advocated for this in my own county, and a neighboring county recently passed a flavor ban. Remember, Big Tobacco may show up in insidious ways to fight back, but don't be intimidated. 2- Contact your members of Congress to continue to pressure the FDA to move forward with regulating mentholated tobacco and vape products. Learn more at Centerforblackhealth.org for more on the importance of a menthol ban and important history, or check out the Black Body Health podcast- episodes 4, 10 and 17 to learn more. 3- Talk to your kids about how flavored tobacco and vape products are designed to hook them. Learn more about how to have these conversations at Flavorshookkids.org. Maybe your kid would like to be a youth ambassador against tobacco in their peers. 4- Consider a donation to Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids or the Center for Black Health and Equity, who have been working to help keep kids and communities free of addiction. 5- If you are part of a faith community, consider engaging in a No Menthol Sunday next May to educate about tobacco's toll on the sanctity of life and how Big Tobacco preys on many of the most vulnerable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit blog post for more information, or go to airhealthourhealth.org. Follow and comment on Facebook page and Instagram. Record a question or comment on the Anchor podcast site or send an e-mail via the website. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth/message

When was the last time you saw an advertisement for cigarettes? Was it good? Today's founder wisdom is a snippet of an upcoming episode with Jay Clue, photographer, scuba diver and founder of Dive Ninja Expeditions. Before discovering his passion for the ocean, Jay worked as a freelance creative director for massive companies and tells us his experience working for the Tobacco industry. Links From the Episode Website: findingfounders.co Follow Sam: https://www.instagram.com/samueldonner/ Follow Finding Founders IG: https://www.instagram.com/findingfounderspodcast/ Further Reading New Camel Brand Contains Crushable Capsule - Winston Salem Journa,(05/05/2008) https://journalnow.com/business/new-camel-brand-contains-crushable-capsule/article_0308f70e-d8ba-54c4-a6b0-1fc3cd0fc101.html Camel Cigarettes: A Long History of Targeting Kids - Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (06/18/2013) https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/microsites/camel/Camel_History.pdf FDA Orders Maker of Camel Cigarettes to End Sales of 4 Products - TIME, (08/15/2015) https://time.com/4034638/fda-rj-reynolds-camel-crush-bold-cigarette-end-sales/ African Americans and Tobacco Use https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/african-americans/index.htm --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support

1. Mark Singleton VP of Sales & Marketing at Southern Recipe to talk about Truck Driver Appreciation week: Sept 12-18. Truck drivers are one of the categories of front line workers who needed to be at their job this last year and a half so we'd have the spectrum of goods we need for our life. Mark talks about ways to support the truck drivers in their work, beginning with safe and kind driving. And there is a non-profit organization which helps support the drivers and their families, drivers often being independent contractors. www.truckersfund.org 2. As school begins the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids brings awareness to this health challenge for youth. They've been doing this for 25 years, bringing awareness, providing education and advocacy around the issue of tobacco use and vapping with our youth--these are still serious issues. Gregg Wieczorek is the principal of Arrowhead Union High School in Hartland Wisconsin and has devoted himself to this cause in all his years in this position. Laurie Rubiner is the Executive Vice President for Domestic Programs at the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and very active in advocacy with schools and with government agencies. www.tobaccofreekids.org

How Matt Meyers from Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and Philip Morris international worked together to implement the TCA. Tobacco control has been gross and corrupt since the beginning and the implications for the future of less harmful vapor products might be predicted by the past. We are also going to discuss those Vape "user fees" that the Trump administration and now Biden administration requested the FDA to collect from vapers and vape manufacturers. And also Pfizer has halted global sales of chantix due to possible carcinogens discovered. Yippie.

This morning we're circling back to speak with Jenn Hubbard - whose daughter Catherine was lost in the Sandy Hook tragedy - to find out all the exciting things ramping up for summer at the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, and to invite you to participate in the upcoming 5k Race For Catherine. Then we'll touch base with the Commissioner of Connecticut's Dept of Veterans Affairs. On the heels of the Memorial Day holiday, there's lots to talk about as this critical support agency continues improving outreach and support services for the state's heroes and their loved ones. And we'll close with representatives of the national Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the Black Women's Health Imperative to review a new report detailing the long history of predatory practices designed to get young women hooked on smoking, and what can be done about it.

00:00 Show Open / Lieutenant Dawn Roberts with the Ohio Division of Parks and Watercraft discusses National Safe Boating Week. 19:30 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Angela An presents a number of topics, including incentives to get Ohioans vaccinated, fraud within Ohio's unemployment compensation system, and the issue of racism that Asian-Americans are dealing with. 42:30 Laurie Rubiner with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and Tammy Boyd from the Black Women's Health Imperative discuss efforts to reduce the use of e-cigarettes among youth. 52:00 Dr. LaShawn McIver with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services discusses financial assistance available while open enrollment continues on healthcare.gov.

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Portia Reddick White, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships with The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and Delmonte Jefferson, Executive Director of the Center for Black Health and Equity, about the growing hazards of teen smoking and the need to eliminate menthol and other flavored nicotine products. They also discuss what the community can do to help end this crisis.

The FDA recently proposed a ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes. Advocates for the ban say this is a big and long-needed public health move, especially for African-American communities, because for years they have been targeted by tobacco companies. We wanted to dig into this topic so we spoke Portia Reddick White, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and Delmonte Jefferson, Executive Director at the Center for Black Health and Equity. They join KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about the history of menthol cigarettes, how much damage has been done, and what no menthol Sunday is all about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill Novelli Bill Novelli, author of GOOD BUSINESS, has a distinguished career as a leader in the corporate and non-profit worlds. He was CEO of AARP, founder and president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, EVP of CARE, and president of Porter Novelli, the global public relations agency. He began his career at Unilever and also was Director of Advertising & Creative Services at the Peace Corps. Mike C-Roc Ciorrocco Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco is the CEO of People Building, Inc., and the powerhouse behind the “What Are You Made Of?” movement. He is the author of Rocket Fuel and focusses on creating unstoppable people.

William D. Novelli is the Founder of Georgetown Business for Impact, and Distinguished Professor of the Practice, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.As a professor in the MBA program at McDonough Georgetown, Bill teaches Principled Leadership for Business and Society and Managing the Enterprise. He developed and previously taught courses in Corporate Social Responsibility and Leadership and Management of Nonprofit Organizations.He founded Georgetown Business for Impact at McDonough and oversees the program, which partners with companies, nonprofits, and government to create social, environmental, and economic impact.Bill is also co-founder and co-chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, a national alliance focused on reforming advanced illness/end-of-life care in the U.S.Previously, he was CEO of AARP, a membership organization of 40 million people 50 and older. Prior to AARP, he was founder and president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, EVP of CARE, the international relief and development organization, and co-founder and president of Porter Novelli, a global public relations firm and now part of Omnicom.

For decades, tobacco companies targeted Black communities and young people with menthol cigarettes. That's the headline of a new report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, who are trying to document the destructive impact cigarettes have and call for the banning of flavored tobacco products. Portia Reddick White, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and Tammy Boyd, Black Women’s Health Imperative Chief Policy Officer & Counsel join KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about the report and what it says about the tobacco industry's tactics to get people addicted to cigarettes.  Read the report here: https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/industry-watch/menthol-report   Episode Pubdate: now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the podcast, I am joined by Gabriella Shirtcliff, who is a junior in high school and shares her experience about e-cigarettes and vaping among her peers. Karen Ard works in public health in the Deschutes County and works with Gabriella to address teen tobacco use. This episode is vital for all of us, but especially parents and educators concerned about Big Tobacco's grip on a new generation. It also, as a bonus, gives me hope if there are as many great teens as Gabriella out there fighting for their futures. Action Items: 1- Talk to your kids or youth in your life about vaping and e-cigarettes- You can find resources from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids here. If you or your kids use social media, share about your concerns. 2- Find out whether your state or town has Tobacco Retail Licensing. If it doesn't, push for it at the local and state level. Use ALA's State of Tobacco Control Report. 3- Find out whether your state, county or town has a flavor ban, and make sure it includes menthol. If it doesn't, write your elected representatives at all levels to share why it is important. Push for the national flavor ban to include all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vaping. 4- Donate to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. 5- Join the Air Health Our Health Fight for Air Climb! Climb on your own terms, your own way, and raise money for the ALA! Or just donate to support our efforts if you don't want to climb! Due date is 2/14/2021, so okay to just go to regular AHOH ALA fundraiser if you're listening after that date. Maybe you can join next year's team! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit blog post for more information, or go to airhealthourhealth.org. Follow and comment on Facebook page and Instagram. Record a question or comment on the Anchor podcast site or send an e-mail via the website. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth/message

Today we're sharing with you a special bonus episode.  Last week I virtually kicked off the American Telemedicine Association's annual EDGE telehealth policy conference, sharing my thoughts – as a provider with a 60-year history with telehealth – on the virtual care revolution we are living through now.  I consider how far we've come, and outline what needs to be done to solidify these gains.  And I look to future challenges and make six recommendations for health systems and innovators engaging in the field. A special thanks to the American Telemedicine Association.  And for more compelling information on the future of telehealth, be sure to join Telehealth Tuesdays hosted by the ATA, running through February 2nd.  You can find more information at ataedge.org

What can COVID-19 mean for you if you smoke or vape? And if you're looking to quit, what steps should you take? Dr. Susan Bailey, President of the American Medical Association and Matthew Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids join KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about the connection between smoking and bad outcomes from COVID-19 and what to do if you decide it's time to quit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

00:00 Show Open / Brandi Davis, Senior Manager of Volunteer United with the United Way of Central Ohio, discusses volunteer opportunities during the holiday season. 10:30 Dr. Susan Bailey, President of the American Medical Association; and Matthew Myers, President and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, discuss smoking and the coronavirus. 19:30 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Tracy Townsend has segments about the Covid-19 vaccine, including an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci; and a discussion with David Pepper, who is stepping down as Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party 41:00 Stacey Frohnapfel-Hasson, Chief of the Bureau of Problem Gambling within the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, discusses gambling-like games that young children find entertaining.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free-Kids. Matt Myers is the President, and Lisa Henriksen PhD is a researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine led the research on tobacco retailers and their proximity to schools. The research was done in 30 US cities, with Seattle being one of them. Across the 30 cities, there are 31 times more tobacco retailers than McDonald’s restaurants and 16 times more than Starbucks. The tobacco industry continues to target our kids, and it's important to stress with our Legislature that there need to be better regulations. www.tobaccofreekids.org

Topics Discussed:  The documentary Maafa 21 and the Life Dynamics report exposing the abortion industry's targeting of minority communities.Comparing the abortion industry's targeting to Big TobaccoCancel Culture & the left’s attempts to re-write historyMillennials and information overloadWhy a movement of African-Americans becoming pro-life scares the Democrat partyHow listeners can get involved Links Mentioned: Documentary: Maafa 21 - Black Genocide in 21st Century AmericaLife Dynamics Report: Racial TargetingTobacco Is A Social Justice Issue: Racial & Ethnic Minorities - The Truth Initiative Tobacco Company Marketing To African Americans - Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids   

On this episode, Tim Gibbs with The Campaign For Tobacco Free Kids discusses California legislation to ban flavored tobacco. You'll learn about one of the greatest threats to public health in the nation, and how California can lead the way in changing course.

Safura Abdool Karim is a public health lawyer and senior researcher at the SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (PRICELESS SA), Wits School of Public Health. Safura completed her LLB at the University of Cape Town and thereafter did her LLM in Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on constitutional rights and non-communicable diseases.     Prior to joining PRICELESS SA, Safura completed her articles at a major corporate firm, acted as a public defender and clerked for Justice Leona Theron at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.  Safura has also worked at notable health law organisations such as the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and the O'Neill Institute as well as being the first legal journalist at GroundUp. Her work at PRICELESS SA focuses on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases as well as using the law to improve health outcomes more broadly. She is also a 2020 Aspen New Voices Fellow.   Tune in to hear about Safura's most challenging experiences in her journey as a legal professional. Tag us on Instagram @safsaksa @sister_in_law_ Remember to always use your voice and your resources to amplify the issues which matter. In South Africa a black woman is has an equal chance at securing employment as she does being murdered by her intimate partner. This cannot be our narrative and it is important to speak out about injustices against women. It is also important that if you are a victim of GBV that you gather the strength to see to it that your abuser is brought to book. Reach out to Sonke Gender Justice: To report an incident of sexual harassment, bullying, abuse or any other form of harassment experienced, seen or heard about, or an incident of fraud, corruption or bribery: CALL the toll-free whistleblower hotline: 0800 333 059 SMS: 33490 EMAIL: sonke@whistleblowing.co.za --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tebello-motshwane/message

Matthew Myers is president of the campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a leader in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its devastating consequences in the United States and around the world. Matt and I worked together on tobacco control when I was in the senate. Now he's turned his attention to the vaping epidemic that has seen nicotine addiction rates rise in our youth for the first time in nearly two decades. He'll also give us an update on risk related to tobacco and e-cigarette use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit A Second Opinion's website here: https://asecondopinionpodcast.com/ Engage with us on social media at: Facebook Twitter Instagram

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a growing threat to all individuals, but there is evidence that smokers and e-cigarette users, many of whom are teens and young adults, are at greater risk because these behaviors harm the lungs. Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids came on the program to talk about the damage that smoking and e-cigarettes do to the lungs making an individual more susceptible to Covid-19

On this week's program, hosts Ann Baldwin and Lisa DeMatteis-Lepore speak with Kevin O'Flaherty, Tobacco-Free Kid's Regional Director. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leading advocacy organization working to reduce tobacco use and its deadly consequences. Tune in this Sunday as Kevin speaks about the youth E-cigarette epidemic in CT and ways his campaign is pushing lawmakers to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes and E-cigs See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bill Novelli -- former CEO of AARP, former president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and current co-chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care -- offers his takes on the varied health challenges facing the U.S. today. How do efforts to combat the vaping epidemic today compare with his early efforts to reduce youth smoking? And what are the challenges for end-of-life care in the U.S.?

Bill Novelli -- former CEO of AARP, former president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and current co-chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care -- offers his takes on the varied health challenges facing the U.S. today. How do efforts to combat the vaping epidemic today compare with his early efforts to reduce youth smoking? And what are the challenges for end-of-life care in the U.S.?

Bill Novelli -- former CEO of AARP, former president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and current co-chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care -- offers his takes on the varied health challenges facing the U.S. today. How do efforts to combat the vaping epidemic today compare with his early efforts to reduce youth smoking? And what are the challenges for end-of-life care in the U.S.?

Our guest today isJonah Shacknai, Executive Chairman of DermaForce Partners, an aesthetics technology firm that develops and globally commercializes novel cosmetic products in multiple channels, including the doctor-dispensed skin care brand skinbetter science™. Prior to co-founding DermaForce, Mr. Shacknai was the founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Medicis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.   Mr. Shacknai has an extremely well diversified public service, law, science, and corporate background, with substantial experience and expertise in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Throughout his career, Mr. Shacknai has been honored by several institutions, including a Doctorate of Humane Letters by an affiliate of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, the “National Award” from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, the “President's Award” from the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, and “Lifetime Achievement” awards from several dermatology societies.   Currently, Mr. Shacknai serves as Co-Chairman of the Foundation Board of the Campaign forTobacco-Free Kids, and Co-Chairman of the Development Committee of the Board of Directors for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Mr. Shacknai is President of the MaxInMotion® Foundation, a non-profit organization assisting economically challenged athletes, as well as persons with disabilities.

A federal ban on certain vaping products aims to keep them out of the hands of teens. But the FDA rules are not nearly enough to do that say two public health experts interviewed by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Sara Goza, MD of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Dorian Furhman with Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes explain what they think should be done to protect kids.

On September 10th, 2019, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the creation of a new $160 million initiative to end the youth e-cigarette epidemic. The three-year program, called Protect Kids, is led by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which will partner with other leading organizations including parent and community groups concerned about the nation’s kids and health. Dr. Kelly Henning, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Health program lead, spoke to Matt Myers, President of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, about the initiative, including the need to hold the federal government accountable for it’s stated intentions to ban flavored e-cigarettes.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk to Matthew Myers, co-founder and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a leading organization dedicated to reducing tobacco use and harm around the country and the world. He discusses the dramatic decline of teen tobacco use, until the recent rise in vaping and e-cigarettes among the nation’s youth – leading to a dramatic increase in nicotine addiction. He discusses the best approach to addressing this public health crisis. Want to stream our station live? Visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com. Find all of our show podcasts on your favorite podcast channel and of course on Apple Podcasts in your iTunes store or here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthcarenow-radio/id1301407966?mt=2

Vaping has been in the new a lot lately. The rise in teen vaping has been driven mainly by flavored cartridge-based products such as Juul, which controls roughly three-quarters of the U.S. e-cigarettes market. More than 3.6 million U.S. kids use e-cigarettes, including 1 in 5 high school students; 97 percent of kids who use e-cigarettes use flavored varieties. Bloomberg Philanthropies just contributed $160 Million to a program to end the e-cigarette youth epidemic. This weekend we have with us: a teen, Phillip Fuhrman, a high school Junior, who was introduced to vaping in 8th grade. It didn't take long to be addicted, but he is now not vaping or using tobacco, and he is actively involved in the work of banning the flavored vaping products. He testified in Congress last July. His mother is cofounder with Meredith Berkman, of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes (PAVe). Vince Willmore is VP, Communications, of "Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids". www.tobaccofreekids.org , www.parentsagainstvaping.org

Ralph welcomes Matthew Myers, co-founder of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to talk about the dangers of “Juuling.” Then, using an excerpt of Ralph from the documentary, “An Unreasonable Man, “ Steve, David and Alan Minsky, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, discuss the “Anybody But Trump” mantra in the context of recent history.

ONS Public Affairs Director Alec Stone, MA, MPA, joins Chris Pirschel, ONS staff writer, to discuss the youth vaping epidemic, how nurses are advocating for smoking cessation, which government agencies are involved in the tobacco conversation, and where ONS stands in the fight against smoking. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Episode Notes: Check out these resources from today's episode: Complete this evaluation for free nursing continuing professional development. Advocating at the State Level for Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Providing Expert Testimony in the Virginia State Senate Surgeon General Declares Youth Vaping an Epidemic ONS endorses International Society for Nurses in Cancer Care tobacco position statement Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids  

On this episode we talk about the tobacco industry influence on advances in tobacco prevention. Ann Boonn is a national expert who joins us from Washington DC and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/upstreamph/support

Photo by John Mackie via Flickr Nearly 1 in 3 high school seniors tried vaping in the last year.  Middle schoolers are vaping too. According to the Centers for Disease Control, e-cigarette use among middle school students increased by 48% between 2017 and 2018. Now, nearly 5% of middle school students in the United States vape on a regular basis. Kids and teachers alike say that middle and high school students are vaping in the bathroom, in the halls and even in class. Vaping is so prevalent among tweens and teens that the U.S. Surgeon General declared youth vaping an epidemic in late 2018. The makers of e-cigarettes say that their products are intended to help adult smokers quit smoking tobacco cigarettes. Some have questioned the sincerity of that claim, noting that vape pens and juice come in shapes and flavors that appeal to children. The Juul, a common vape device, looks like a USB drive and is so popular among youth that the word "Juuling" is often used to mean "vaping." Juul e-cigarette and vape juice pods The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is preparing to release new rules designed to limit kids' access to vaping products. Among the rules under consideration: A ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes (except menthol and mint flavors) in stores that don't have areas prohibiting children under the age of 18 New age-verification standards for online stores selling e-cigarettes Increased enforcement of rules banning e-cigarette marketing toward minors Such rules may limit kids' access to e-cigarettes in the future, but right now, there are a whole lot of teens, tweens and families grappling with the issue of vaping. In this episode, we talk with Renee, a mom of twin teenage boys who vape. As she learned firsthand, it's not easy to help a son who's hooked on vaping. If your child vapes or smokes, visit teen.smokefree.gov for resources to help them quit including the quitSTART app and a text messaging program (Text “Quit” to 47848). In this episode,  Jen, Janet & Renee discuss: Signs and symptoms of vaping How to talk to your kids about vaping Why kids who would never dream of smoking a cigarette are comfortable with e-cigarettes How to help your kids resist peer pressure, including phrases you can teach your child to use when someone offers an e-cigarette A possible link between anxiety and vaping Health risks of vaping What it's like to help a teen quit vaping What to do if your son is vaping Links we mentioned (or should have) in Episode 155: Teens and Vaping: 9 Things Parents Need to Know -- article by Jen How to Talk with Your Kids About Vaping -- guide from the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids Electronic Cigarettes (E-Cigarettes) -- basic intro by the National Institute on Drug Abuse A Harm Reduction Guide for Parents of Teens Who Vape -- great resource for parents whose teens are already vaping Additional Resources: Smokefree Teen teen.smokefree.gov Helpful resources, including Smokefree TXT: Quitting on your phone, on your terms Free mobile service, if you have an unlimited text plan, for teens (starting at age 13) Provides 24/7 encouragement, advice and tips No parent permission required Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids  800-803-7178 tobaccofreekids.org Advocate for public policies to help teens quit smoking and protect people from secondhand smoke Truth (a campaign developed by teens) thetruth.com Teen videos, apparel and games   photo credit: https://vaping360.com/best-vape-starter-kits/pod-mini-vapes/  

What is the key to creating sustainable social impact? Social change pioneer Bill Novelli and Washington DC restaurateur and chef Erik Bruner-Yang (Maketto, Brothers and Sisters, Spoken English) sit down with Debbie and Billy Shore to discuss cultural identity, community engagement and lasting social impact. As the former architect of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Novelli built a social marketing program that successfully challenged big tobacco’s overwhelming political and cultural influence. “One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in my life is that we can move the mountain… but we’ve got to start by saying, ‘we can do it,’” says Novelli. “We need to change social norms and expectations,” he continues. Bruner-Yang thinks the solutions to intractable social issues like gun violence require long-term inter-generational thinking. “If you’re 40-plus, your mind is made up. America can be and has been at the forefront of social change. Some of these big issues you have to just skip a generation,” he observes. As a professor in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, Novelli sees the promise of the next generation of leaders. “I go home every night with a song in my heart because they understand that there’s more than one bottom line. They want purpose. They want to work in an organization that doesn’t just have a profit, but also cares about people and the planet,” he says. Long-time No Kid Hungry supporter Bruner-Yang describes how his former passion for music translated into owning restaurants. “It’s a lot of the same tangibles. You get to be creative, you’re entertaining people, you’re using a lot of the same thought processes,” he notes. Listen in as these two guests discuss talk about how their values have motivated them to lead purpose-driven lives.

William Novelli is a professor in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the MBA program and founded and oversees the Georgetown Business for Impact center. William is co-chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a national alliance to reform advanced illness/end of life care in the U.S. Previously he was CEO of AARP, founder and president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (now board chair), EVP of CARE and president of Porter Novelli, the global PR agency. William began his career at Unilever and was also a Peace Corps staff member. William has served on the American Cancer Society Board of Directors since 2017 and is a member of the Revenue and Marketing Committee. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In an administration proud of its deregulatory approach, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has defied the trend. He's proposed to mandate lower nicotine levels in cigarettes and suggested a willingness to crack down on electronic cigarette products popular with kids. Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and CQ health reporter Andrew Siddons assess the proposals and the likelihood Gottlieb will follow through.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The very first episode of Kamusta Kayosi!

Since 2007, Bloomberg Philanthropies has helped save nearly 35 million lives through these efforts. In March 2018, we honored six governments and NGOs at the Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards for Tobacco Control. The awards celebrate the significant strides made by organizations implementing anti-tobacco policies in low and middle-income countries. In honor of the six winners, we revisit one of our favorite podcast episodes about the worldwide fight to reduce tobacco use. This episode’s conversation features Neena Prasad of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Health team in conversation with Yolonda Richardson, from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and Jose Luis Castro, executive director of the Union and CEO of Vital Strategies.

* Special guest host David Goerlitz* AEMSA joins Tobacco Free Kids and other public health orgs to oppose Cole Bishop * Is Cole Bishop the right answer 2 years later* The advocacy funding lack of interest * A rant look back at 2017

WBZ's Doug Cope speaks with Vince Willmore from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids about the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development's expansion of a ban on smoking in public housing developments nationwide.

Susan Glickman Florida Director, SACE Action Fund Susan has worked with Southern Alliance for Clean Energy since 2001 as a consultant and lobbyist and was named Florida Director in August 2013. Susan has a background in running political campaigns and also directs SACE’s Action Fund in the Sunshine State. A native of Florida, Susan has consulted with many national organizations such as Natural Resources Defense Council, Ceres, Advanced Energy Economy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Vote Solar, Clean Energy Group, Environmental Defense Fund and Clean Air Task Force. She developed and directed The Florida Business Network for a Clean Energy Economy, a coalition of business leaders working together to advance the clean energy economy. Prior to energy and climate issues, Susan worked to grant the FDA authority to regulate tobacco with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; to institute a nation-wide health tracking system with Trust for America’s Health and for the first time to fund prostate cancer research with the National Prostate Cancer Coalition. Susan was recently appointed by Governor Rick Scott to the Florida Commission on Volunteer Service. She was Founding Chair of The Florida Commission on the Status of Women. Susan grew up in Tampa, attending St. John’s Episcopal Day School and Academy of the Holy Names. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech from the University of Texas at Austin and an A.A. from Florida State University. Susan resides in Belleair Beach on Florida’s central Gulf coast.

In this podcast, Becky Freeman speaks with Jennifer Brown and Joanna Cohen, from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, USA. They are two of the authors of the paper "Tobacco industry response to menthol cigarette bans in Alberta and Nova Scotia, Canada". The study, published in Tobacco Control, found that while menthol cigarettes are not being sold anymore, there are new products on the market that look almost identical to the menthol cigarettes available before the ban and nearly 90 percent of them are being marketed as a different, smoother alternative to regular cigarettes. Menthol cigarette bans were enacted in Nova Scotia in June 2015 and in Alberta in September 2015 and are believed to be the first implemented in the world. The Institute for Global Tobacco Control conducted this research with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit. For images of the new packages and full details of the study, visit: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/19/tobaccocontrol-2016-053099.full.

Gustavo Torrez, Director of Youth Advocacy for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and Joshua Prtichett, Anti-tobacco Youth Advocate talks with Gary Sutton tobacco on WSBA

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