CDC taking on smoking image
The Albany Herald Editoral Board
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a different kind of anti-smoking campaign. Perhaps inspired by the effectiveness of nasty political ads over the past several election cycles, the CDC is going negative in an effort to combat the carefully cultivated image by tobacco purveyors that smoking is what the popular people do.
The way the CDC is attacking that utopian concept of smoking is by bringing to bear facts, words and pictures that tell the truth about what tobacco does to the smoker and those who breathe second-hand smoke.
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