What do guns, cars and cigarette smoking have in common? They all have created public health crises. What did we do as a nation to reduce auto deaths and discourage smoking? We took action, such as enacting requirements for seat belts, child car seats and airbags. We required that the Surgeon General’s warning be posted on cigarette packages and that ads promoting cigarettes be banned. Some of us remember Joe the Camel ads. We banned ads like th…
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