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Jason Cherkis

Up In Smoke: Romney Spiked Massachusetts' Model Anti-Smoking Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.03.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- In the mid 1980s, Massachusetts Department of Public Health official Gregory Connolly began a seemingly hopeless campaign to end smoking...

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More State Funding for Tobacco Control Programs? Don't Believe the Hype.

Audrey Silk | Posted 05.05.2012 | New York
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Audrey Silk

There was once a time where government involvement over smoking meant warning people that they were assuming a health risk and offering advice or services to those who wanted it. No one had a problem with that. Then it got ugly.

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David Kessler, Former FDA Commissioner, On Tobacco: 'It Was A Battle Royal'

AP | By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 10.05.2011 | Healthy Living
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RICHMOND, Va. -- More than 15 years have passed since David Kessler first worked to regulate the tobacco industry as a Food and Drug Administration co...

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