Printed for personal use only  Georgia State gets $19 million to
study smoking  CDC and NIH grant is the largest in university
history  Georgia State University’s School of Public Health and
its partners will receive $19 million over five years from the
FDA and the National Institutes of Health to create one of
fourteen Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science. Announced today,
the grant is the largest in the university's history.  The
center will be led by Michael Eriksen, dean of the university's
School of Public Health. The research focus will be on the
decisions people make surrounding tobacco use.  Eriksen is a
global crusader against tobacco. He testified before Congress
when he was director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the
CDC and was an expert witness on behalf of the Department of
Justice against the tobacco companies. He is lead author of the
book and website, The Tobacco Atlas, a visual bible of all
things tobacco. We talked to him about the grant.  Why is this a
big deal? Haven't we spent b