New York, NY –
The city is moving ahead on a plan to post health warning signs where people buy cigarettes. Assistant Health Commissioner Sarah Perl says the campaign would be the first of its kind in the nation.
PEARL: We’re going to have it at the place where people purchase cigarettes, so that at that critical point of decision, when they’re going to lay out almost $10 for a pack of cigarettes. They’re really going to have to think twice: do I really want to pay $10 for mouth cancer?
REPORTER: Health officials say they're bracing for a possible legal challenge from store owners and tobacco companies.
Fred Mogul has been covering healthcare and medicine for WNYC since 2002. His beat takes him to hospitals, community clinics, doctors offices, health agencies, public schools and research labs across the metropolitan area. His work has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, Time magazine and Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.
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