The March 2014 Monitor cover story — "Thank you for not smoking" by Tori DeAngelis — has won the top prize for a trade magazine feature from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the professional association of independent nonfiction writers.
The article reports on the psychology behind smoking-cessation efforts since the 1964 Surgeon General Report.
DeAngelis has written for the Monitor for nearly 30 years, first as a staff writer from 1986 to 1997 and then as a freelance writer from her home in Syracuse, New York.