As someone who identifies as Black and as an advocate for the end of marijuana criminalization and its harms, I’m…
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has just published a video, featuring Johanna Cohen, the Bloomberg professor of…
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Isasina is a member of the Shipibo-Conibo, an Indigenous nation centered in Peru’s Ucayali River region. He is also an…
In April 2021, I visited Pucallpa in the Amazon region of Peru. The city of 300,000 sits on the hot…
University of Michigan faculty members Ken Warner and Cliff Douglas have worked for decades to combat smoking. Warner, 75, an…
I don’t think I’d ever heard of the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), conducted annually by the Centers for…
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