Elizabeth Ward Tobacco Quotations

People have still not fully gotten the message that the most important things that they can do to avoid cancer are to avoid tobacco smoking and maintain a healthy body weight and physical activity.

While we have so much information about changes that would be necessary to decrease the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, it's not clear how to change society and change policy to help those changes take place. It's disturbing that we have so much information now but we haven't really achieved the social will to make the kinds of changes that would need to be made to really impact tobacco smoking and the trends of increasing overweight and obesity.

It's really the result of cumulative public health efforts to educate the public about the dangers of tobacco and also due to the imposition of excise taxes and state tobacco-control programs.