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[https://history.library.ucsf.edu/schroeder.html Steven A. Schroeder, MD] was president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1990 to 2002 and led the philanthropy’s $700 million tobacco-control campaign. He formerly chaired the American Legacy Foundation (now Truth Initiative), which named the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies in his honor. He is the Professor of Health at UCSF. [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 Dr. Warner] says much of the energy and money aimed at opposing e-cigarettes has come at the expense of curbing the use of smoked tobacco, which remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. | [https://history.library.ucsf.edu/schroeder.html Steven A. Schroeder, MD] was president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1990 to 2002 and led the philanthropy’s $700 million tobacco-control campaign. He formerly chaired the American Legacy Foundation (now Truth Initiative), which named the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies in his honor. He is the Professor of Health at UCSF. [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 Dr. Warner] says much of the energy and money aimed at opposing e-cigarettes has come at the expense of curbing the use of smoked tobacco, which remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. | ||
“On the face of it, it’s ludicrous that we would ban e-cigarettes, but permit the sale of tobacco and cannabis. It’s really smart politics but dubious public health.” Some of the people who smoke that could benefit from e-cigarettes "are the downtrodden. The homeless, the H.I.V. positive, substance abusers, prisoners, who have no constituency politically.” said [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/juul-ban.html Dr. Warner] when interviewed about bans on vapor products. | “On the face of it, it’s ludicrous that we would ban e-cigarettes, but permit the sale of tobacco and cannabis. It’s really smart politics but dubious public health.” Some of the people who smoke that could benefit from e-cigarettes "are the downtrodden. The homeless, the H.I.V. positive, substance abusers, prisoners, who have no constituency politically.” said [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/juul-ban.html Dr. Warner] when interviewed about bans on vapor products.<br> | ||
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The Truth Initiative, too, once embraced harm reduction. Its former board chairman, Tom Miller, Iowa’s long-serving attorney general, still argues that e-cigarettes are a “means to saving millions of lives.” Cheryl Healton, its former CEO, and David Abrams, formerly executive director of the Schroeder National Institute of Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, which is housed at the Truth Initiative, are harm-reduction advocates. So is Steven Schroeder, for whom the institute is named. [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 Found here] | |||