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===2021, Mar 4 - [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Cliff_Douglas Cliff Douglas] Manifesto: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C1nk1XEZ8WhnOXtCGTqHdeqomc9HOuko/view It is Time to Act with Integrity and End the Internecine Warfare  Over E-Cigarettes]===
===2021, Mar 4 - [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Cliff_Douglas Cliff Douglas] Manifesto: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C1nk1XEZ8WhnOXtCGTqHdeqomc9HOuko/view It is Time to Act with Integrity and End the Internecine Warfare  Over E-Cigarettes]===
*"I urge all of us in the tobacco control community to climb out of the bunker, come to the table, and try to genuinely work together. Stop skirting the truth when it feels inconvenient and open your minds and ears to all of the science that is before us. But the same goes for my other community, with whom I agree regarding the evidence-based promise of THR, but which also bears some responsibility for the adversarial nature of the relationship and for not consistently acknowledging areas of ambiguity or concern, including significant rates of experimentation with vaping by youth and youth-oriented marketing by some segments of the vaping industry. We won’t come together if we don’t come together."
*"I urge all of us in the tobacco control community to climb out of the bunker, come to the table, and try to genuinely work together. Stop skirting the truth when it feels inconvenient and open your minds and ears to all of the science that is before us. But the same goes for my other community, with whom I agree regarding the evidence-based promise of THR, but which also bears some responsibility for the adversarial nature of the relationship and for not consistently acknowledging areas of ambiguity or concern, including significant rates of experimentation with vaping by youth and youth-oriented marketing by some segments of the vaping industry. We won’t come together if we don’t come together."
===2020 - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CBmxmTeclgKWjA-_7P3GQrddeOkEISIt/view E-Cigarettes, Harm Reduction, and Tobacco Control: A Path Forward?]===
*"Consider that in the few minutes it took to review the points in this Commentary, approximately 25 Americans and 300 people worldwide died of complications arising from their use of combusted tobacco. This is a toll that should be unacceptable to all of us, no matter where one stands on the issues presented here. We should not and can not continue to engage in the divisive and shameful conflict that the e-cigarette era has visited upon the tobacco-control community; the lives of too many people are at stake. We can and must do better and move on to the combusted tobacco endgame."




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===2020: [https://www.thecommunityagenda.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=230:activists-health-workers-call-for-tobacco-harm-reduction&Itemid=174 ACTIVISTS, HEALTH WORKERS CALL FOR TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION]===
===2020: [https://www.thecommunityagenda.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=230:activists-health-workers-call-for-tobacco-harm-reduction&Itemid=174 ACTIVISTS, HEALTH WORKERS CALL FOR TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION]===
*Human rights activists and health workers in Uganda have embarked on a Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) campaign aimed at reducing or minimizing harm or risks suffered by people and communities as a result of using tobacco products.
*"Human rights activists and health workers in Uganda have embarked on a Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) campaign aimed at reducing or minimizing harm or risks suffered by people and communities as a result of using tobacco products."
*He stressed that the THR advocacy is not going to fight or conflict with the on going government programs, but to raise an intellectual conversation seeking a deeper understanding of THR and nicotine.
*"He stressed that the THR advocacy is not going to fight or conflict with the on going government programs, but to raise an intellectual conversation seeking a deeper understanding of THR and nicotine."