Terrie Linn McNutt Hall (July 19, 1960 – September 16, 2013) was an American anti-smoking and anti-tobacco advocate.
[3] Hall's hobbies were "trouble-shooting" and playing the computer during her free time; she also did school presentations with teenagers.
She enjoyed bowling, reading Danielle Steel books, Mountain Dew, spending time with her grandson, and people-watching.
[2] Hall claimed that the first time she smoked a cigarette was when, at the age of 13, she was camping with her friends in North Carolina.
[3] However, it was not until at the age of 17, when she was a cheerleader at Forbush High School in East Bend, North Carolina,[6] that she started smoking to be with her friends, and also because her father was a smoker.
[8] Hall felt the adverse effects of tobacco at the age of 25, including a sore throat that never cleared.
She stated "It's hard to wrap your mind around cancer, and when they told me that they were going to remove my voice box, I thought I would never speak again.
"[7] Hall died on September 16, 2013, at the age of 53, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, having been diagnosed with cancer for the 11th time.
[1][9] She was filmed by the CDC at the hospital two days before her death, and the footage was later used for two ads that started airing in February 2014.
[1] Hall was featured in four public service announcements (PSAs) shown on North Carolina state-wide TV networks for Tobacco Reality Unfiltered,[2] her first one originally airing in her home state of North Carolina in 2006 and later airing in Utah in April 2011.
Hall was perhaps best known for appearing in one of the PSAs for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's anti-smoking campaign "Tips From Former Smokers".
[16] Hall was formerly the president of the Western Piedmont Speak Easy Club of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
She worked with the American Cancer Society as the team captain for the Relay for Life and in 2007, she was a legislative ambassador at "Celebration on the Hill" in Washington, D.C.[2] In December 2005, she received the Distinguished Service Award from then Lt.