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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. | 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://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/douglas-clifford.html Clifford E. Douglas, J.D.]== | ||
Bio (there is also a photo on the link above: | |||
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. | |||
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C1nk1XEZ8WhnOXtCGTqHdeqomc9HOuko/view Statement]: | |||
All nicotine-containing products fall along a continuum of risk – with combustible tobacco products like cigarettes on one end representing the most dangerous form of nicotine delivery, and on the other end medicinal nicotine products. For the smoker, quitting all nicotine and tobacco use is the surest way to reduce risk, but for those who want or need to continue using nicotine, switching to a noncombustible source of nicotine will significantly reduce their risk compared to continued smoking. | |||
==[https://www.tobaccoreform.org/john-seffrin/ John Seffrin, Ph.D]== | ==[https://www.tobaccoreform.org/john-seffrin/ John Seffrin, Ph.D]== | ||
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