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and trans fats, 136
Stewart, Jon, 211
street vendors, 86–87
Green Carts initiative, 85–88, 262
Stringer, Scott, 211
stroke
antismoking stroke ad, 194–95, 196
hypertension and, 114
Subway
calorie labeling and, 150–51
NSRI participation, 164–65, 168, 220, 221
portion cap proposals and, 206
trans fats phaseout, 136
sugar, 102–3, 155, 228
sugary drinks, 101, 102–4, 261, 264–66
advertising and counter-ads, 151–55, 183, 184–86
banned in city agency food standards, 108
consumption surveys, 181, 183, 203, 265
portion sizes and size limits, 188, 189, 190
SNAP exclusion proposal, 178–83, 186–87
vending machine bans and limits, 108–9
See also soda entries
supermarkets, 85–86, 87
See also cigarette retailers; food industry; grocery stores; specific companies and chains
Super Size Me (film), 188
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) sugary drink exclusion proposal, 178–83, 186–87, 190–91
swine flu (H1N1), 127–28, 132–34
Taubes, Gary, 102
taxes. See cigarette taxes; soda taxes
TB. See tuberculosis
Teamsters Union, 159, 228, 231
teenagers. See youth
television, smoking on, 243–44
television advertising. See antismoking ads; soda advertising; tobacco marketing
Thomas, Andrea, 175–76
Thompson, Bill, 211
Tingling, Milton, 233, 234, 235
Tisch, Laurie, 87
Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, 202
tobacco industry, 142, 143
e-cigarettes and, 245
pharmacies and, 146
and product display bans, 200, 239
as public health enemy, 267–68
and the retailer warning sign rule, 144, 145, 148–49, 192
tobacco marketing, 55, 142, 147, 259
discounts and discount ban, 202, 238–39, 241–42, 247, 249, 259
e-cigarette marketing, 245, 246, 252–53
product displays and display bans, 199–201, 238–39, 241–42, 247–49
See also cigarette retailers
tourism, indoor smoking ban and, 29–30
trans fats, 44–45, 52
trans fats ban, 262
adoption and industry reaction to, 75–78, 79–80
background, 42–46, 50–53
Bloomberg’s support for, 74–75
health department advocacy and negotiations, 53, 71–75
opposition within the mayor’s office, 72–75
press reactions to, 71, 75–76
similar bans outside New York, 136
voluntary ban, 53, 71
tuberculosis
Frieden’s early prevention work, 11–13
in nineteenth-century New York, 23
Turkey, antismoking initiatives in, 261
typhus, 23
Unilever, 164, 165, 168
United Kingdom
cigarette display ban, 200
salt reduction initiatives, 117–18, 125, 173–74
UN meeting on chronic disease prevention (2011), 255–56
excerpts from Bloomberg’s speech, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 270
USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture), 165, 263
and the SNAP sugary drink exclusion proposal, 178–79, 186–87, 190–91
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Nutrition Summit (2010), 165, 166–67, 176
U.S. Supreme Court rulings, on commercial speech, 200
Vallone, Peter, Jr., 77, 251
Varmus, Harold, 35
vegetables and fruits
in city agency food standards, 108
the Green Carts initiative, 85–88, 262
vending machine junk food bans, 108–9, 262
Vietnam, antismoking ads in, 260–61
The View, 211
Vilsack, Thomas, 190
Vitta, Joseph, 228
Vladeck, Bruce, 215
Walgreens, 146
Wall Street Journal, 139, 158, 162, 166–67, 222
Walmart, 175–76, 226
Walters, Barbara, 211
Wansink, Brian, 188
Washington Legal Foundation, 264
Washington Post, 166, 224
Weiner, Anthony, 60
Wendy’s, 73, 80, 84–85, 168
West Nile virus, 24
“What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” (Taubes), 102
White Rose, 168
WIC program, 179
Willett, Walter, 44, 45, 74, 228
Wolfe, Sidney, 49
Wolfson, Howard
and antismoking ads, 195–96
and negotiations with Coca-Cola over soda portion cap rule, 215, 216, 217
and proposal to raise the tobacco sales age, 240
and the soda portion cap rule, 209–10, 212, 213
on the soda tax proposal, 160
workplace smoking bans, 21, 22
See also Smoke-Free Air Act; smoke-free laws
World Bank, 41
World Health Organization, 12–13, 62, 120, 127
yellow fever, 23, 24
youth smoking, 19, 197, 259
antismoking ads and, 55, 200
cigarette taxes and, 19
e-cigarettes and, 247, 250
and smoking in the movies and on television, 243–44
youth sales restrictions, 146–47, 238, 239–40, 247, 249, 259
Zimbabwe, 40, 41
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Prescription for a Healthy Nation
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