Assistant Secretary for Health in June of 2009, I will never forget joining a delegation in the White House Rose Garden to support President Obama as he signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
That was true of historic alcohol prohibition laws
In New Zealand, it is a policy that is being brought in with a range of other policies that are likely to have a larger and faster impact on smoking prevalence, such as a very low nicotine standard for cigarettes, she says
A mathematician by training, Berrick developed a personal interest in tobacco policies and was one of a group of researchers who floated the TFG idea in a 2010 paper
But there is still so much work to be done
In a recent op-ed I co-authored on this subject, we noted that theres this persistent perception in the United States that Black people prefer menthol cigarettes