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**Dean Emeritus of Public Health

**University of Michigan

===[https://history.library.ucsf.edu/schroeder.html Steven Schroeder]===

*Photo: E-Cig Summit 2020

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210323153911/https://www.philanthropy.com/article/bloombergs-millions-funded-an-effective-campaign-against-vaping-could-it-do-more-harm-than-good Source: Article by Marc Gunther] and [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/juul-ban.html Source: Article by Thomas Fuller]

===[https://richmond.com/business/fda-names-new-head-of-tobacco-products-center/article_8ee4def2-7c75-5b05-9e33-0749862a08df.html?fbclid=IwAR2DgyaIP2S7pyA0Salyprdh3hpRF2c0XZspvd4_RqbwlvBYXaBjRQuC5Jg Mitch Zeller, JD]===

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*Photo: [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-insight/fda-insight-e-cigarettes-and-national-youth-tobacco-survey FDA]

===David Abrams===

**Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

**New York University School of Global Public Health

===[https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/about-us/about-attorney-general-tom-miller Tom Miller]===

**K. Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH - [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/facultydirectory/Cummings-Kenneth Bio and Photo]

**Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

===Clifford E. Douglas, J.D===

*[https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/douglas-clifford.html Bio and photo]:

**In 1988  he served as the associate director of the National Coalition on Smoking or Health, where he worked for its founding director, Matt Myers (who later became the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids); He served as an attorney and advisor in the state attorney general actions that resulted in the Master Settlement Agreement; Worked as a policy advocate, lawyer and consultant on behalf of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and the Public Health Law Center; Served as the American Cancer Society’s Vice President for Tobacco Control and as the founding Director of ACS’s Center for Tobacco Control; He is the Director, University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network and Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health.

===Allan Erickson===

[https://www.tobaccoreform.org/#takeaction Source #1] Bio: Former Vice President for Public Education and Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society; staff director, Latin American Coordinating Committee for Tobacco Control. National Tobacco Reform Initiative (NTRI) Coordinator

[https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_4/ Statement / Quotes: ] I know how totally horrible tobacco is for a human being, and what it does to you. But I think things are moving in the direction of harm reduction. I think a lot of people have hidden their heads in the sand. They are just so totally opposed to e-cigarettes, it drives them nuts. I think there is a whole range of new products that are coming up that could potentially be better and better and better—less harmful.

===Abigail S. Friedman, Ph.D.===

**Department of Health Policy and Management

**Yale School of Public Health

===Jonathan Foulds PhD===

[https://twitter.com/JonathanFoulds/status/1397974143669317636 Jonathan Foulds PhD]

===Alex Liber===

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===[https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/cheryl-healton Dr. Cheryl Healton]===

We treat addiction to combustible tobacco differently than addiction to other products with respect to harm reduction approaches. We are spending way too much time on infighting and too little time on finding common ground to massively reduce combustible tobacco use and ending the false equivalency between products. Smoking remains a worldwide tragedy causing a billion lives at stake in this century alone. Lower risk products exist to help those unable or unwilling to quit. We have abandoned our harm reduction approach in public health when it comes to saving smokers.

[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/legacy-begins-national-search-for-next-president-and-chief-executive-officer-173289731.html Retirement from American Legacy (now Truth)]

===Bethea A Kleykamp, MA, PhD===

**University of Rochester Medical Center

***COI: I currently have no conflicts of interest with respect to tobacco, vaping or pharmaceutical industries. From May 2014 to September 2018, I provided harm reduction consulting services to an e-cigarette company (NJOY) and a tobacco company (RJ Reynolds) through my work at Pinney Associates.

===[https://www.huffpost.com/author/lynn-t-kozlowski-phd Lynn Kozlowski]===

*[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/e-cigarettes_b_4550443 E-cigs vs. Cigs: Cut Through, Cut In, Cut Down, Cut Out]

===Ethan A Nadelmann===

**Drug Policy Alliance

**New York and International

===Raymond S. Niaura, PhD===

**Former: Director of Science and Training at the Schroeder Institute (SI) for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the [https://truthinitiative.org/ Truth Initiative], and former President of the [https://www.srnt.org/ Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]

**Deputy Editor of the [https://academic.oup.com/ntr Nicotine and Tobacco Research]

===[https://www.tobaccoreform.org/john-seffrin/ John Seffrin, MD, PhD]===

[https://www.giantsofcancercare.com/recipients/2014/20 Source #1] and [https://www.upstate.edu/news/articles/2014/0506-barbara-resnick-phd-and-john-r-seffrin-phd-to-receive-honorary-degrees.php Source #2] Bio: Former CEO of the American Cancer Society and ACS Cancer Action Network. Served on the White House Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health, as well as the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also served on the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine and the National Cancer Legislation Advisory Committee. He is a past president of the International Union Against Cancer. He helped to create the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids (now the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids)

[https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_1/ Source #1] and [https://www.tobaccoreform.org/nasem-report-benefits-0f-e-cigarettes-and-harm-reduction-products-vs-combustible-cigarettes/ Source #2] Statement: Technologies/alternatives exist today that can help people quit smoking or at least reduce significantly their consumption of burned tobacco, which is what kills them. After fighting the tobacco epidemic for over 5 decades, we now have proven harm reduction methods to help us avoid a carnage in otherwise preventable deaths.

===Michael Siegel===

Boston

*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]

===Paul Newhouse===

University of Illinois at Chicago

*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]

===Charles A. Gardner, PhD===

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===Arielle Selya, PhD===

(need to find a quote)

[https://filtermag.org/nicotine-drug-prohibition-tobacco-harm-reduction/ Quote] / [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/matthew-johnson Bio and Photo]

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===Veronique de Rugy, PhD===

[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/anti-vaping-scare-tactics-and-cigarette-sales/ Quote] / [https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/veronique-de-rugy Bio and Photo]

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===Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D.===

**Behavioral research consultant,

**Previously on Harvard Medical School psychiatry faculty

===Michael F. Pesko, PhD===

**Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

**Georgia State University

===Daniel Wikler, Ph.D.===

===[https://www.wpr.org/health-officials-look-cut-number-smokers-about-10m-2024 Michael Fiore]===

"In just today, we are going to lose 20 of our residents. Twenty individuals in Wisconsin are going to die prematurely of a disease directly caused by their smoking, on average, robbing them of 10 to 15 years of life." " Many adults don't want children exposed to secondhand smoke. Vaping is, without a question, less dangerous than cigarette smoking."

===Thomas Brandon, PhD, United States===

[https://twitter.com/Vapingit/status/1454534518824636418/photo/1 SEE: Tweet w/graphic]

===Neal Benowitz===

===Sally Satel===

===Peter Killeen PhD===

*[https://emerituscollege.asu.edu/sites/default/files/ecdw/EVoice21/killeen21.html Quote Source]

If e–cigs displace cigarettes and help people quit other tobacco products—and they already have been shown to do so—how do we justify discouraging their use?

===Sheila Vakharia, PhD===

[https://twitter.com/MyHarmReduction/status/1460111719376769024 Tweet thread]

===Carl V. Phillips, MPP, PhD===

[https://www.ecigarette-politics.com/is-nicotine-addictive.html Quote Source]  

"Three months of additional smoking poses a greater risk to someone’s health, on average, than a lifetime of using a low-risk alternative."

===Dr. Brad Rodu===

===Helen Redmond===

===Carrie Wade, PhD===

Include disclosure about JUUL

===Bill Godshall===

===Robert Sklaroff===

[https://insidesources.com/dont-protect-cigarettes-by-banning-far-less-harmful-nicotine-vapor-products/ Source of name - need to research for a quote]

===Suzanne M. Colby, PhD===

University

*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]

===Vaughan Rees, PhD===

[https://insidesources.com/dont-protect-cigarettes-by-banning-far-less-harmful-nicotine-vapor-products/ Source of name - need to research for a quote]

professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia

===Joel Nitzkin, MD===

*[https://2o9ub0417chl2lg6m43em6psi2i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20160406AlaskaLtrTobcLegis-1.pdf Quote Source and Bio]

*[https://www.rstreet.org/team/joel-nitzkin/ Bio and photo]

===Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS===

Cancer Center

*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]

===Jason Osborne===

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===Jeffrey Brandes===

[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1425863211656548360 Jeff Brandes video tweet]

===Stanton Glantz===

“If you’re going to do one or the other, in terms of these respiratory effects you’re probably better off with an e-cigarette,” says study co-author Dr. [https://time.com/5748868/vaping-respiratory-disease/ Stanton Glantz], a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

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