149. 20 Years of Smoke Free Ohio: Susan Jagers and Micah Berman

Dan talks with two public health experts and veterans of the Smoke Free Ohio campaign of the early 2000s, Susan Jagers, who was co-chair of the Smoke Free Ohio campaign, and Professor Micah Berman, who was at the time of the campaign Executive Director of the Tobacco Public Policy Center at Capital Law School. Topics include the lead up to the Smoke Free Ohio vote in 2006, tactics of the tobacco industry in the Ohio Statehouse, the state of tobacco and related legislation today, and the sad paucity of prevention and cessation funding in Ohio today.

Susan Jagers is Executive Director  of the Ohio Association of Health Commissioners and Micah Berman is Stephen F. Loebs Professor in Health Services Management and Policy & Professor of Law at Ohio State University.