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Jennifer Bihm
Assistant Editor/ Staff Writer
Jennifer Bihm is a writer for the Los Angeles Sentinel and the L.A. Watts Times newspapers in Los Angeles
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This article was produced as a project for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellowship.
Other stories in the series include:
Tobacco companies put up a fight against California's Prop 56
UCLA SAFE program to help low income residents avoid second hand smoke
Climbing Fences: Obstacle
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Officials for a state campaign aimed at ending tobacco use among California’s children are supporting a tobacco tax increase initiative for the November ballot that will raise the price of cigarettes and vaping products but tobacco companies are fighting to stop it.
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Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the program is mainly aimed at African American and Latino residents of public and low income housing. The project coincides, say organizers, with HUD’s proposed ban on smoking inside individual units.
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Does a forthcoming ban on smoking in public housing promote the health of residents or amount to "nannying the poor"? Reporter Jennifer Bihm looks into the issue.
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It's tempting to assume that another article on smoking's harms would be a non-story. But while smoking rates among African Americans are lower than national levels, this ethnic group continues to suffer disproportionately from chronic, preventable diseases caused by smoking.
<p>Jennifer Bihm reports on how diabetes and a lack of care are affecting those living with the disease in South Los Angeles.</p>