Gigi Kellett

Jan 19, 2024 | znetwork.org | Gigi Kellett

In the 1960s and 1970s, Big Tobacco and public health advocates were locked in a battle. The anti-smoking supporters were gaining ground as cities were innovating ways to reduce smoking and protect public health during this time. As former tobacco industry lobbyist Victor L. Crawford observed, you’d “put out a fire [in] one place, another one would pop up somewhere else.”But in the mid-1980s, this momentum stopped. Big Tobacco had discovered a way to reverse local gains.

Jan 19, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Gigi Kellett

In the 1960s and 1970s, Big Tobacco and public health advocates were locked in a battle. The anti-smoking supporters were gaining ground as cities were innovating ways to reduce smoking and protect public health during this time. As former tobacco industry lobbyist Victor L. Crawford observed, you’d “put out a fire [in] one place, another one would pop up somewhere else.”But in the mid-1980s, this momentum stopped. Big Tobacco had discovered a way to reverse local gains.

Sep 10, 2023 | truthout.org | Ray Levy-Uyeda |Gigi Kellett |Anton Woronczuk |Cherise Morris

Ramona Bowles began smoking commercial cigarettes when she was a teenager. For decades, she smoked as many as four packs a day. Then in 2021, the Pine Hill Indian Tribe, the First People of Fort Jackson in South Carolina, launched a smoking cessation program to address high usage rates among tribal members like Bowles. The program offered peer support, accountability, and an Indigenous lens to tobacco use and consumption. Bowles is down to one and a half packs per day.