AHA Deputy Chief Science and Medical Officer, Rose Marie Robertson, M.D., FAHA, offers perspective (via Zoom) on ISC 20 presentation WMP111. copyright American Heart Association "A lot of the decrease in smoking has been due to things that we've done in advocacy, we and our public health partners. This has been a very effective public health initiative over many years. We've increased the excise taxes on smoking in most places. We've fostered clean air laws, so that there are more and more places where you're not exposed to secondhand smoke, but that also encourages smokers to quit, and we've developed more and more effective ways to help people quit. There are really effective cessation programs. And all of those have helped with the general population."