{"id":2444,"date":"2024-10-01T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2024-10-03T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T20:05:58","slug":"october-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2024\/10\/october-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Watts, Region 8 Tobacco Lead, NC Department of Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"October 2024 Spotlight; Ernest Watts, Regional Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Manager for NC DHHS \u2013 Chronic Disease &amp; Injury\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">&#8220;When I started this job 2012, [vaping] was limited just to high school. Now it&#8217;s in elementary school. And if you think about how children are being manipulated, it will make you angry. Anger is not going to solve this problem; It&#8217;s collectively bringing everybody on board, educators, church members, parents, public health, everybody, because we all have a stake.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I started this job 2012, [vaping] was limited just to high school. Now it&#8217;s in elementary school. And if you think about how children are being manipulated, it will make you angry. Anger is not going to solve this problem; It&#8217;s collectively bringing everybody on board, educators, church members, parents, public health, everybody, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2024\/10\/october-2024\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ernest Watts, Region 8 Tobacco Lead, NC Department of Public Health\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116605,"featured_media":2445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-768x768.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-1024x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2024\/10\/Ernest-Watts-Spotlight-Oct-2024-1-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"November 2024 Spotlight; David Willard, Regional Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Manager for NC DHHS \u2013 Chronic Disease & Injury","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}