The Big Quit

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Assistant Commissioner Sarah Perl on why the smoking rate in NYC is down twenty percent, and Wall Street Journal reporter Anna Wilde Mathews on the proposed FDA regulation of the tobacco industry. Send us your comments about how you managed to quit smoking -- or not.

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