Donald C. Smart's special expertise is in drug/crime epidemic, its social dynamics, and public health measures for avoiding it and its health and social consequences. Mr. Smart was born in 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1952, he received a B.A. from the University of Nevada at Reno with a major in economics and minors in both sociology and history. In 1971, he earned the Master of Arts in Public Administration (MAPA) at the University of California's Graduate School of Public Policy in Berkeley. For 30 years, Mr. Smart worked in various California agencies of local government. On retiring in 1992, he undertook an independent, interdisciplinary study of drug policy on his own initiative using libraries at U.C. Berkeley. His special expertise is in drug/crime epidemic, its social dynamics, and public health measures for avoiding it and its health and social consequences. Among other things, his work shows that war on drugs is counterproductive and socially destructive but that damage can be greatly reduced without legalization of drug commerce.Mr. Smart has presented scholarly papers at meetings of the International Congress on Alcohol and Drug Dependence and the American Public Health Association. He is published in the international journal Social Science and Health, his book Market Interposition: The Public Health Remedy for America's Drug/Crime Epidemic, and the articles: "Lessons from the history of alcohol control," and "Weighing tobacco control alternatives, their illusions and realities." In 1997, Mr. Smart's work in drug policy led to the founding of the Pacific Drug Policy Institute, Inc. As a center for research and education, PDPI's mission is to provide the information to enable optimum reform of drug policy. PDPI maintains a website at www.pdpi.org, setting forth the public health strategy of Market Interposition together with supporting research data.