‘‘New York City is a media center and especially after the early
successes in tobacco, the press was always looking at us ready
to write a story. There is nothing we could develop [. . .] without
fear that it might leak out in the development process and we
would get an embarrassing story and end up really hurting
our ability to get it done. So everything was done with the
greatest secrecy and determination that no one who wasn’t in
the Department could hear about this until the plan was fully
finished.”
[Interviewee 1, DOHMH]