"As a result of our comprehensive anti-tobacco campaign including increased taxes, smoke-free laws, anti-tobacco advertising, and help quitting -- 1,300 fewer New Yorkers were killed by tobacco in 2007 than in 2002.

This included 800 fewer fatal heart attacks and strokes, 200 fewer cancer deaths, and 250 fewer deaths from lung disease. Similar progress on a national level would save millions of lives."

(Former Commissioner T. Frieden, January, 2009)

The NYC Coalition For A Smoke-Free City acknowledges the tremendous work of  the NYC DOHMH Bureau of Tobacco Control and its major contribution to the reduction in morbidity and mortality in NYC.