As a freelancer, Huff produced hundreds of "How to" feature articles and wrote at least sixteen books, most of which concerned household projects.
At her instigation, Huff gave up his editorial work (which had become a "rat race" for him) and they moved to California in 1946, bought ten acres in the Valley of the Moon.
Stanford historian Robert N. Proctor wrote that Huff "was paid to testify before Congress in the 1950s and then again in the 1960s, with the assigned task of ridiculing any notion of a cigarette-disease link.
On March 22, 1965, Huff testified at hearings on cigarette labeling and advertising, accusing the recent Surgeon General's report of myriad failures and 'fallacies'.
Gelman (Columbia University) suggested Huff could have intentionally killed the project to save his reputation, but thinks we'll never known since the documents provide no clue.