{"id":2780,"date":"2025-12-31T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:23:15","slug":"october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2025\/12\/october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Lee, Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine"},"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 wp-image-2781 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><em><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">&#8220;Tobacco is already more available than McDonald&#8217;s or almost any other product. One of the key things is getting a handle on underage people&#8217;s ability to access tobacco products, and that means raising the state law to the national law to match. It means investing in licensing so that we can effectively target the bad actors among retailers, support retailers who are already doing a good job, and build and strengthen our enforcement. This way, if you are underage, it will be harder to access a tobacco product than it is now.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tobacco is already more available than McDonald&#8217;s or almost any other product. One of the key things is getting a handle on underage people&#8217;s ability to access tobacco products, and that means raising the state law to the national law to match. It means investing in licensing so that we can effectively target the bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2025\/12\/october-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Joseph Lee, Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116605,"featured_media":2781,"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-2780","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\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-768x768.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-1024x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-3-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"October 2025 Spotlight; Joseph Lee, Professor - Wake Forest University School of Medicine","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\/2780","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=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}