Tobacco

Keith Mortman, MD, associate professor of surgery and neurological surgery, spoke to Fox46, Charlotte, North Carolina, about smoking cessation and why vaping isn’t a safe alternative.

Keith Mortman, MD, associate professor of surgery, spoke to Gray DC for an article about a congressional effort to raise the legal age for tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Lawrence “Bopper” Deyton, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, co-authored a commentary published in the Lancet, titled "Understanding the Tobacco Control Act: Efforts by the US Food and Drug Administration to Make Tobacco-related Morbidity and Mortality Part of the USA’s Past, not Its Future."

Vinayak Jha, assistant professor of medicine, talked to News Channel 8 about the progress made against smoking on Great American Smokeout Day.

An interview with Dr. Daniel Lieberman, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, regarding ways to quit smoking was picked up by an Iranian newspaper. Dr. Lieberman gives 25 useful tips for successfully quitting smoking.

Dr. Katherine Chretien, associate professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, wrote an op-ed about the new labels on tobacco products and the efforts of the FDA to stop people from smoking.

The thought first struck what Vinayak Jha, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, calls his “ridiculous nerve.”

Perry’s Nut House is a roadside attraction on the central coast of Maine known for its collection of bizarre items: seahorse water pistols, a large stuffed albatross, exotic nut seeds. It closed in 1997 but reopened a year later, not long before David Perry, Ph.D., no relation to the owners,…