Veteran fights back against Tobacco- with Brandy Carpenter

Big Tobacco has a history of targeting the military, from including tobacco in rations to leaked documents showing how they targeted recruits and veterans as ripe for tobacco addiction. Brandy Carpenter was serving in Afghanistan when she received word via the Red Cross that she was about to be made an orphan by Big Tobacco. Join us in a discussion about how this changed her life. Brandy works as a nurse practitioner and a tobacco treatment specialist in a lung cancer screening program. She shares her own story and her wisdom about how to break individuals and our society free of tobacco.

Update- lung cancer screening criteria have changed since this episode was published! 

The USPSTF recommends annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in adults aged 50 to 80 years who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years. Screening should be stopped once a person has not smoked for 15 years or develops a health problem that substantially limits life expectancy or the ability or willingness to have curative lung surgery.

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