Statewide View: Smoking-cessation programs work; so why extinguish them?

Statewide View: Smoking-cessation programs work; so why extinguish them?

The daunting challenge of quitting smoking just became a lot harder. On April 1, the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health was eliminated in cuts ordered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This decision resulted in a loss of critical support for state-level cessation programs, threatening decades of public health progress. As we observed World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the demise of the Office on Smoking and Health represented a d…