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Jump to full article: Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer, 2008-04-11
Author: SHELLEY HANSON
Intro: Dr. William Mercer’s anti-smoking teaching tools include pigs’ lungs, straws and a 500-pound statue of Snoopy’s alter ego, Joe Cool.
Each Wednesday, the items are used to educate children in a different Ohio County school about the dangers of smoking. The students slide on gloves before touching the lungs — one set is pink, the other damaged purposely by smoke to show the children what 20 years of using tobacco can do to them. . . .
For his efforts to educate and his battle to provide Ohio County residents with smoke-free places to frequent, Mercer recently was named the West Virginia Academy of Family Physicians’ Family Doc of the Year during the Scientific Assembly this month in South Charleston.
Mercer, who has a private practice in Wheeling, also serves as the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department’s health officer.
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