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October 1, 2008 | Story
Long BeachMoms Advocate for Clean Air"I don't understand much about politics-believe me, not a whole lot," Evangelina Ramirez, speaking in her native Spanish, tells a Long Beach forum on local air pollution in early 2005.
November 16, 2010 | Book/Story
Funding for programs to reduce tobacco use at lowest level since 1999.
July 5, 2009 | Commentary/Story
RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey discusses the signing of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in a column in The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.
October 15, 2009 | Story
IOM report confirms evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of heart disease.
January 11, 2007 | Commentary/Story
Philadelphia is finally getting a breath of fresh air. However, in a guest column in The Philadelphia Inquirer, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., says much more needs to be done to reduce tobacco's toll in the city and throughout Pennsylvania.
June 22, 2009 | Video/Story
Historic law will protect kids, help smokers quit.
July 23, 2009 | Story
While working as a senior policy analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency in 1984, James Repace, MSc, estimated that secondhand smoke caused 5,000 U.S. lung cancer deaths each year.