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Jump to full article: Red and Black (University of Georgia), 2008-04-01
Author: SHANESSA FAKOUR
Intro: The smoking rates of blacks in America have decreased two-fold from 1990 to 2001.
For 50 years, blacks' smoking rates were greater than those of whites, Robert Robinson, associate director for health equity in the Office of Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a phone interview.
Robinson plans to discuss how this population disparity was eliminated during today's Bernard B. Ramsey lecture.
"[Robinson] was very involved in some public health initiatives to reduce the smoking rates," Mark G. Wilson, associate professor and department head of health promotion and behavior, said in a phone interview.
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