When she graduated from the School of Public Health in 1980, you could still smoke inside the buildings.
Few people were sounding the alarm. But Herndon was watching as her mother, a lifelong smoker, found herself coughing more and more. Sara Herndon had always warned her children never to take up smoking; Sally Herndon and her sisters had listened.
But now, just as Herndon was embarking on a career in public health, her mother was close to losing her personal battle with the addiction that would become Herndon’s life’s mission…