{"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. 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