The World Health Organization’s World No Tobacco Day on May 31 is an annual educational effort to inform people on the dangers of using tobacco — including lung cancer and other cancers.
University of Colorado Cancer Center member and tobacco cessation researcher Gina Kruse, MD, has studied the intersection of cancer and tobacco for more than a decade, publishing papers on prevention strategies, health equity, and implementation and intervention activities.
We spoke with Kruse about tobacco and cancer, including strategies to get people to stop using tobacco and populations in which tobacco use is more prevalent.