Anti-Smoking Czar Gives Notice

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Wolfe to Exit American Legacy Foundation
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Chuck Wolfe, who has presided over high-profile ad campaigns designed to stop kids from smoking, will step down as executive vice president of the American Legacy Foundation.
Wolfe was hired last year to create a national anti-smoking ad effort using money from the tobacco industry’s settlement of claims with 46 states. Earlier, he headed Florida’s anti-smoking campaign under former Gov. Lawton Chiles.
“I feel like I have done the building of the place that I wanted to do, and now I want to find another place to do that,” Wolfe said.
Wolfe, who plans to remain with the foundation through a transition period, said he has no immediate plans to take another job.
Foundation president Cheryl Healton said Wolfe “laid the groundwork for a model organization dedicated to diversity and partnership, not to mention an aggressive and youth-focused campaign against tobacco.”
The foundation’s $150-225 million campaign–by Arnold Communications of...








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