Shear Alliance/True Colors - State Of Tobacco Control 2019 - Heart Month Survival Guide Pt 1

This week host John Voket and the award-winning For the People introduces a brand new grassroots organization called Shear Alliance, which is working to support the state's LGBTQ community with an upcoming Cut-a-Thon to benefit True Colors.

Then we'll hear about why our state is failing to fund proven-effective systems and lifesaving laws to protect residents from lung cancer - even though we have millions in grant funds to do it.

And we'll close with our first 'Heart Month Survival Guide' segment for February, dialing up a physician and educator from Yale New Haven Health to discuss one of the most misunderstood cardiovascular ailments, congenital heart disease.