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[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 '''Less Dangerous''']<br> | [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 '''Less Dangerous''']<br> | ||
Kenneth Warner, a University of Michigan scholar, says harm from tobacco is far greater than from vaping. A founding board member of the Truth Initiative — the nonprofit public-health organization committed to ending tobacco use — Warner has also been the president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, the senior scientific editor of the 25th-anniversary Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health, and the dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Warner and a colleague, David Mendez, built a computer model that tracks the U.S. adult population’s smoking status and smoking-related deaths. When they ran data about vaping through the model, they found that under all but the very worst-case assumptions, the benefits of e-cigarettes, which can help smokers quit, exceed their costs in terms of lives saved. | Kenneth Warner, a University of Michigan scholar, says harm from tobacco is far greater than from vaping. A founding board member of the Truth Initiative — the nonprofit public-health organization committed to ending tobacco use — Warner has also been the president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, the senior scientific editor of the 25th-anniversary Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health, and the dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Warner and a colleague, David Mendez, built a computer model that tracks the U.S. adult population’s smoking status and smoking-related deaths. When they ran data about vaping through the model, they found that under all but the very worst-case assumptions, the benefits of e-cigarettes, which can help smokers quit, exceed their costs in terms of lives saved. | ||
Warner says the campaigns against e-cigarettes are a mistake. The harm from tobacco is far greater than from vaping: “Michael Bloomberg | Warner says the campaigns against e-cigarettes are a mistake. The harm from tobacco is far greater than from vaping: “Michael Bloomberg did some great things for public health, but he is way off base on this.” | ||
He is the author of: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210105121608/https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article/21/10/1299/4990310 How to Think—Not Feel—about Tobacco Harm Reduction]<br> | |||
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=Steven Schroeder= | =Steven Schroeder= | ||