In honor of ANR's 50th we're telling stories to illustrate all the magical moments that have led us to nearly 63% of Americans protected from secondhand smoke. Our first story: Jamie Kent: musician, advocate, coalition builder. See the whole story of Smokefree Tennessee here!

Lewis McTush brought to light a simple truth: the blues cannot survive without the people who play it. And the people who play it were being slowly, quietly poisoned. Read about the amazing Mr. McTush.

Austin was one of the first music cities to go smokefree in 2010, inspiring the Smokefree Music Cities movement. Looking back, musicians like Betty Soo reflect on why it's so important for music venues and bars everywhere to be smokefree.

In 2017 Lafayette, Louisiana, went smokefree inside music venues and bars, following a successful Smokefree New Orleans campaign in 2015. Both of these initiatives were driven by the voices of working musicians, like Chubby Carrier. With a family history of lung cancer, Carrier became a spokesman for Musicians for a Smokefree Louisiana, and later joined forces with ANR to help kick off the Smokefree Music Cities initiative in 2018. Read more about Chubby here.

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