Cafe Scientifique: The Rise and Fall of Cigarette Smoking: Why It Is Still a Problem, Smoking Cessation, and Lessons for the Obesity Epidemic

While tobacco use remains the number one killer of Americans, smoking prevalence is at a modern low.   Learn how and why this happened, best practices for smoking cessation, the vaping alternative, how smoking has become a social justice issue, and whether there are relevant lessons for the obesity epidemic.

Speaker: Steven Schroeder, MD, Professor, Dept. of Medicine, UCSF, and Director of the UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership Center