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Though smoking prevalence in NYC has been halved, from 22% in 2002 to 11% in 2020, inequities remain due to tobacco marketing, concentration of retailers in communities with high poverty, as well as other forms of structural injustice

Proposition 99-funded education, through the media campaign, on the dangers of secondhand smoke, as well as the messages designed to discredit the tobacco industry, created an environment where it was easier to mobilize public and political support for policies to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke

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