CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 48, Issue 2 81-82, Copyright © 1998 by American Cancer Society
The politics of addiction: status of the tobacco settlement
J. R. Seffrin
American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA.
The enactment of an effective national tobacco control policy is a needed
first step toward reducing smoking, controlling the tobacco industry, and
significantly reducing tobacco-related disease and death. Dr. Seffrin,
Chief Executive Officer of the American Cancer Society, outlines the
critical public health measures that the ACS is working to see included in
comprehensive federal tobacco control legislation.