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The article presents a survey which identifies the smoking behavior of American Public Health Association (APHA) members in the U.S. The association conducted the survey in order to determine how they could best contribute to the goal of decreasing cigarette smoking within the country. It has shown additional evidence that health professionals' own smoking behavior is related to their attitudes and actions in urging a change in the smoking behavior of those to whom they give care. In addition, the said survey presented the percentage of APHA members who ever tried to persuade someone to stop smoking.

The article reports on the compulsory health insurance in California in 1934-1935. According to health surveys in the 1920s and 1930s, poverty and ill health were closely associated. There is an estimated forty percent of the American people who were not receiving adequate medical care as well as medical physicians who were experiencing financial difficulty. Adoption of health insurance was urged by other groups saying that without some method of spreading the risk of medical costs, the diagnostic and therapeutic value of modern medicine would remain beyond the reach of those who needed care the most.