{"id":2783,"date":"2025-12-31T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:27:35","slug":"november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/2025\/12\/november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Soule, 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-2789 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"November 2025 Spotlight; Eric Soule, Associate Professor - Eastern Carolina University\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-2-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctfg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1426\/2025\/12\/JL-Spotlight-Oct-2025-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">&#8220;Talk to kids early about <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">[e-cigarettes] and their risks so that kids know that they can ask questions and that they can be supported. 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