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==Letters==

===2021 (Request): [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMJ_JiqyiEa-bpcG4Ev7XyCROSt9k8RM/view Letter to: Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, Director - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]===

*This letter is signed by seventy-five multidisciplinary experts, as well as other key stakeholders in the fight to reduce tobacco-related disease and death. This includes seven individuals who have served as president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Drawing from our collective expertise, we write to petition the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rename “E-cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury” (EVALI).

===2021 (Declined): [https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QvkPs5oK8MF_CWmO5SL9mCwUcTmFMwR/view Letter from: Peter Briss, MD, MPH, EVALI Incident Manager, 2019-2020, Medical Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC]===

*Given the lack of evidence to rule out the contribution of other chemicals of concern to the EVALI outbreak, the possibility that chemicals of concern could be introduced into supply chains of either THC or non-THC-containing products in the future, the prudence of assessing substance use broadly where clinically indicated, and that some EVALI cases reported exclusive use of nicotine-containing products, CDC declines to rename EVALI.

===2026 (Request): [https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QvkPs5oK8MF_CWmO5SL9mCwUcTmFMwR/view Letter to: Jay Bhattacharya, Acting Director - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]===

*From: Michael F. Pesko, PhD, J. Rhoads Foster Professor of Economics, Director - Social Impact Lab, University of Missouri.

*I am writing to respectfully request reconsideration of the CDC’s decision to retain the term “E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury” (EVALI).

*Since the 2019 to 2020 outbreak, the weight of the evidence has increasingly pointed to vitamin E acetate in illicit, adulterated THC vaping products as the primary driver of the lung injuries observed during that period. By contrast, I am not aware of comparable causal evidence implicating standard nicotine e-liquids. In that context, continued use of the term EVALI risks conflating distinct product categories in ways that are no longer well aligned with the underlying evidence.

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 ==Letters==
+===2021 (Request): [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMJ_JiqyiEa-bpcG4Ev7XyCROSt9k8RM/view Letter to: Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, Director - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]===
+*This letter is signed by seventy-five multidisciplinary experts, as well as other key stakeholders in the fight to reduce tobacco-related disease and death. This includes seven individuals who have served as president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Drawing from our collective expertise, we write to petition the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rename “E-cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury” (EVALI).
+===2021 (Declined): [https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QvkPs5oK8MF_CWmO5SL9mCwUcTmFMwR/view Letter from: Peter Briss, MD, MPH, EVALI Incident Manager, 2019-2020, Medical Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC]===
+*Given the lack of evidence to rule out the contribution of other chemicals of concern to the EVALI outbreak, the possibility that chemicals of concern could be introduced into supply chains of either THC or non-THC-containing products in the future, the prudence of assessing substance use broadly where clinically indicated, and that some EVALI cases reported exclusive use of nicotine-containing products, CDC declines to rename EVALI.
+===2026 (Request): [https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QvkPs5oK8MF_CWmO5SL9mCwUcTmFMwR/view Letter to: Jay Bhattacharya, Acting Director - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]===
+*From: Michael F. Pesko, PhD, J. Rhoads Foster Professor of Economics, Director - Social Impact Lab, University of Missouri.
+*I am writing to respectfully request reconsideration of the CDC’s decision to retain the term “E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury” (EVALI).
+*Since the 2019 to 2020 outbreak, the weight of the evidence has increasingly pointed to vitamin E acetate in illicit, adulterated THC vaping products as the primary driver of the lung injuries observed during that period. By contrast, I am not aware of comparable causal evidence implicating standard nicotine e-liquids. In that context, continued use of the term EVALI risks conflating distinct product categories in ways that are no longer well aligned with the underlying evidence.
 ==Articles, Op-Eds, Blogs, Media==