According to Medpage Today, anti-tobacco advocates credit the federal cigarette tax increase, the 2012 launch of the first federally-funded mass media campaign aimed at reducing tobacco use, and the 2009 federal law placing restrictions on the marketing and sale of cigarettes for the record low smoking rate recorded in 2015
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References Hartmann-Boyce, J., Chepkin, S., Ye, W., Bullen, C., & Lancaster, T
Sometimes long strands of hair that he combed over the top of his balding head would come loose and drop down over one ear, giving him the look of a cowboy who had been half scalped
The oldest of nine children, Blockson said he remembers listening in awe as his grandfather told how his father, James Blockson, ran away from servitude in Delaware and fled to Canada, and how he and tens of thousands of other black slaves who fled north along its invisible rails and hid in its clandestine stations in the years before the Civil War kept the secrets of the Underground Railroad locked in his heart until he died. Blockson credited these family stories with inspiring him at an early age to begin collecting information on Afro-Americans in general and the Underground Railroad in particular. The decision to become not just a writer but a bibliophile of black history and literature was reinforced by yet another childhood experience, one that Blockson related without rancor, but offered as further explanation for the forces that drove him to gather the chronicles of his ancestors
