On Jan. 11, 2024, the U.S. Surgeon General released a landmark report that warned of the grave dangers of cigarette smoking to health. Sixty years to the day, on Jan. 11, 2024, The University of Alabama’s Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society (CSTS) and College of Community Health Sciences (CCHS) will commemorate the defining report with two special events:
Luncheon presentation: Blowing Smoke: The Lost Legacy of the Surgeon General’s Report Speaker: Dr. Alan Blum, founder and director of the CSTS; professor and Gerald Leon Wallace, M.D., Endowed Chair in Family Medicine at CCHS
Buffet presentation: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health Speaker: Donald Shopland, remaining staff member of the advisory committee that wrote the ground-breaking report; former interim director of the U.S. Public Health Service’s Office on Smoking and Health and coordinator of the National Cancer Institute’s Smoking and Tobacco Control Program.
The events free and open to the public. For more information, contact Julia Martin at jmartin@ua.edu.
CCHS is located at 850 Peter Bryce Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401
