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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. | ||
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==Mitch Zeller, JD== | |||
[[File:Mitch_Zeller_JD.jpg|thumb|left|FDA]] | |||
'''Reduce Risk Compared To Smoking'''<br> | |||
"We still have more than 30 million addicted adult cigarette smokers. Almost all of whom are concerned about their health and have some interest in quitting. So, if a typical pack-a-day cigarette smoker could completely substitute all of his or her cigarettes with e-cigarettes, there's no question that [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-insight/fda-insight-e-cigarettes-and-national-youth-tobacco-survey that person would be reducing their risk compared to continuing to smoke a pack of cigarettes every day]." | |||
[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] was appointed Director of CTP (Center for Tobacco Products), a department in the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration), in 2013. He served as associate commissioner and director of the agency’s Office of Tobacco Programs from 1993 until 2000, and then was the senior vice president with Pinney Associates, a Maryland-based pharmaceutical consulting firm that does work for GlaxoSmithKline, the leading seller of nicotine-replacement therapy products. (At Pinney he provided strategic planning and communications advice on domestic and global public health policy issues involving the treatment of tobacco dependence and the regulation of tobacco products and pharmaceuticals.) He previously served as executive vice president of the American Legacy Foundation (Now known as the Truth Initiative. His responsibilities there included marketing, communications, strategic partnerships, and creating the foundation's first Office of Policy and Government Relations.), the Washington-based anti-smoking organization established as part of the settlement between states and the tobacco industry. He was a co-chair of the National Cancer Institute’s Tobacco Harm Reduction Network at the time of his appointment as Director of CTP. | |||
[https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/about-center-tobacco-products-ctp/mitch-zeller?fbclid=IwAR1ojQX5R9fwtq0fu5QX1EKSQVhLJ2C1LpWJh7QnQUBPygI-JeBSU7JIPUM#Bio Zeller, a graduate of Dartmouth College and the American University Washington College of Law], has been working on FDA issues for more than 30 years. He began his career as a public interest attorney in 1982 at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). In 1988, Zeller left CSPI to become counsel to the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Government Operations Committee where he conducted oversight of enforcement of federal health and safety laws. Instrumental in crafting the FDA's 1996 tobacco regulations, Zeller also represented FDA before Congress, federal and state agencies. Zeller also served as an official U.S. delegate to the World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. | |||
==Tom Miller== | |||
[[File:Iowa_AG_Tom_Miller.jpg |thumb|right|Iowa Attorney General]]<br> | |||
'''The harm of the combustible cigarette is dramatically greater than the harm of the e-cigarette''' | |||
"[https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/statement-by-attorney-general-tom-miller-on-electronic-cigarettes?fbclid=IwAR3hUipuRok0sy1PKpMGR4O26hKyF3XZfcXAWoW8WX87oJ3ssWOerhtD-5A The combustible cigarette is by far the most harmful consumer product known to mankind], killing 480,000 people each year in the United States alone. This is largely due to the many deadly toxins created and released by the combustion. A panel of experts estimates that the e-cigarette is 95 percent less harmful. Some push back on this study, in part questioning the ability to put an exact number on it. Another estimate is 90-98 percent less harmful. But whatever number is correct, e-cigarettes are dramatically less harmful than combustible cigarettes. There has been an effort to say that combustible cigarettes and e-cigarettes are equally harmful, that their companies are equally evil, and that they should be strongly regulated the same way. This view is incorrect, but it has gotten significant traction. Polling indicates that 32 percent of Americans believe that combustible cigarettes and e-cigarettes are equally harmful. This means that as many as 13 million adult smokers believe them to be equally harmful, and are very unlikely to switch when switching may save their lives. People making misstatements about e-cigarettes have the best of intentions—to keep kids from being addicted to nicotine through e-cigarettes. But adults misleading kids to get them to do what we want has always been a failed strategy." | |||
[https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/about-us/about-attorney-general-tom-miller Attorney General Tom Miller] is serving in his 10th four-year term as Attorney General of Iowa. He is the longest currently serving attorney general in the nation. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1969. Mr. Miller served as a VISTA volunteer in Baltimore, Maryland, for two years, and then as legislative assistant to U.S. Representative John C. Culver (D-IA). He returned to the Baltimore Legal Aid Bureau as legal education director, and he also taught part-time at the Maryland School of Law. Mr. Miller opened a law practice in McGregor in northeast Iowa and served as city attorney of McGregor and Marquette. He has served as President of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). | |||
He was actively involved in the establishment of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and has been a fierce and determined critic of the Tobacco Industry over many years. [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Tom_Miller Tom Miller served on the Board of the Truth Initiative (American Legacy Foundation)] | |||
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