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The tobacco control playbook for tackling chronic disease
Phil Huang, MD, MPH (Director/Health Authority @ Dallas County Health and Human Services) sat through an Austin ordinance hearing that ran past midnight, restaurant owners lined up to testify that going smoke free would put them out of business. It passed. Nobody closed, and adult smoking in Texas went from around 24 percent to under 10.
On this episode of Moving Health Forward, Dr. Huang shares why tobacco control is the model for chronic disease and what it takes to make the healthy choice the easy choice.
We cover:
- Why policy change beats education on individual behavior
- The economic…
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