Karl Lund

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Karl Lund quotation on vaping
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Senior Researcher Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Biography

Dr. Karl E. Lund is senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. He was Research Director at the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research for the period 2006-2018. He has been involved in tobacco control work since the mid-1980s, and received the Norwegian Medical Association’s Award in preventive medicine in 2000. Dr. Lund has been a member of several expert committees including WHO’s International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC). He is Associate Editor in Nicotine & Tobacco Research and a Senior Associate Editor of Tobacco Regulatory Science. He has been an expert witness in several lawsuits against the tobacco industry. Dr. Lund holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from 1996 and he was formally assessed with qualifications as Professor in 2009.

The smearing of a respected tobacco scientist:

Marc Gunther, an independent freelance journalist, has written about the actors involved in Karl Erik's shameful treatment.

  • The smearing of a tobacco scientist: Norwegian sociologist Karl Erik Lund was banned from a conference on e-cigarettes because…..er, for no good reason
  • Lund is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health who has studied tobacco use for more than three decades. He has testified for the plaintiffs in five lawsuits against the industry. “I’m not the tobacco industry’s friend,” he says. “Far from it.”
  • There’s a pattern here. “The Lund affair was no accident or mistake, but the deliberate targeting of Karl and the conference,” says Gerry Stimson.

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