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'''<big>Scientists, Professors, Medical Professionals, Tobacco Control and Public Health Leaders, along with Lawmakers are speaking out in support of adult use of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) products to help people quit smoking and to prevent relapse.</big>'''<br><br>
'''<big>Scientists, Professors, Medical Professionals, Tobacco Control and Public Health Leaders, along with Lawmakers and Investigative Journalists are speaking out in support of adult use of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) products to help people quit smoking and to prevent relapse.</big>'''<br><br>


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='''Argentina'''=
='''Argentina'''=


 
===Dra. Marta Angueira, Cardiologist===
*[https://www.lv12.com.ar/tabaquismo/el-tabaquismo-es-una-enfermedad-que-tiene-mucha-recaida-n79004 Source]
* "Cigarettes have the serious problem that in addition to nicotine, the smoke contains a lot of carcinogens, it contains carbon monoxide, ammonia, this means that what is really very harmful is precisely the smoke. The idea is that these people who are in these conditions, propose that they start using a substitute for cigarettes with the condition that it does less damage, for that there are the chewing gums that have been used for a long time, the patches, there are nasal sprays that contain only nicotine. Electronic cigarettes are another alternative since it is 95% less harmful than the combustion cigarette".
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===Dr. Guillermo Eduardo Harvey===
===Dr. Guillermo Eduardo Harvey===
Oncological Surgeon. Professor of the first chair of Surgery UNNE. Member of the Argentine Academy of Medicine.  
Oncological Surgeon. Professor of the first chair of Surgery UNNE. Member of the Argentine Academy of Medicine.  
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='''Australia'''=
='''Australia'''=


===Professor Amanda Baker===
[https://tasmaniantimes.com/2020/06/vaping-experts-comment/ Quote Source] / [https://australianrotaryhealth.org.au/dr-amanda-baker/ Photo and Bio]
[[file:Australia Amanda Baker.png|center]]
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===Professor Billie Bonevski===
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of neame]
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===Associate Professor Yvonne Bonomo===
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of neame]
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===Ron Borland PhD===
===Ron Borland PhD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20200924025759/https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/digitalhealth-cre/people/chief-investigators/ron-borland Bio and Photo]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20200924025759/https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/digitalhealth-cre/people/chief-investigators/ron-borland Bio and Photo]
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[[file:Australia Ron Borland PhD.png|center|alt=Ron Borland PhD "The good intentions of many in tobacco control of trying to limit low toxin alternatives to smoking are in all likelihood paving the way to the hell of prolonging the epidemic of smoking- caused harm."|Ron Borland PhD]]
[[file:Australia Ron Borland PhD.png|center|alt=Ron Borland PhD "The good intentions of many in tobacco control of trying to limit low toxin alternatives to smoking are in all likelihood paving the way to the hell of prolonging the epidemic of smoking- caused harm."|Ron Borland PhD]]
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===Coral Gartner, PhD===
===Stephen Bright, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/CoralGartner Follow on Twitter] / [https://itcproject.org/about/itc-staff/coral-gartner/ Photo and Bio] / [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.14126?author_access_token=Iq2zXQPIiC9pIFHxgIjR0Yta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC66mZgD27qP0Rw3PMGJSs1Z1BOVJ6Kk0snDOJ_2oEvnxMeqAhhOpCDtelu5OHb8LONPYFEOUv5iYHl5UbXiNowgw Quote Source]
[https://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/medical-and-health-sciences/our-staff/profiles/senior-lecturers/dr-stephen-bright Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/stephenjbright/status/1319846952415031297 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/stephenjbright Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia Stephen Bright PhD.png|center]]
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[[file:Australia Coral Gartner, PhD.png|center|alt=Coral Gartner, PhD, School of Public Health Faculty of Medicine Queensland University: "Banning non-therapeutic nicotine vaping products is ethically problematic, because it denies addicted smokers access to a less harmful alternative product and an additional means of quitting smoking."|Coral Gartner, PhD]]
 
===Associate Professor Matthew Browne===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Wayne Hall, PHD===
===Dr Andrew Byrne===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1067 Bio and Photo]
[https://www.redfernclinic.com/ Photo and Bio] / [https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source: Letter Signatory]
[[file:Australia Andrew Byrne.png|center]]
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[[file:Australia Wayne Hall PhD.png|center|alt=Wayne Hall PhD "A MORE BALANCED AND SENSIBLE PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY WOULD ALLOW [PEOPLE WHO SMOKE] TO ACCESS E-CIGARETTES IN WAYS THAT MINIMISE YOUTH UPTAKE AND MAXIMISE THE POTENTIAL FOR E-CIGARETTES TO ELIMINATE THE GLOBAL USE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS"|Wayne Hall PhD]]
 
===Professor David Castle===
[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Castle Photo and Bio] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230709075109/https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/psychiatrists-want-ecigarettes-ban-lifted-saying-patients-are-dying-early-20170717-gxcszh.html Quote Source]
[[file:Australia David Castle.png|center]]
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===Senator Hollie Hughes===
===Professor Kate Conigrave===
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[https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/kate-conigrave.html Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/KConigrave Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/KConigrave/status/1447665305782669312 Quote 1 Source] and [https://twitter.com/KConigrave/status/1447664372482854914 Quote 2 Source]
*[https://twitter.com/hollieahughes Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia Kate Conigrave.png|center]]
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===Dr Brad Mackay===
===Dr Jon Cook===
*[https://twitter.com/DrBradMcKay Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/drbradmckay/status/984279961681911808 Quote Source] / [https://www.eastsydneydoctors.com.au/bradmckay Bio]  
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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[[file:Australia Dr Brad Mackay.png|center]]
 
===Dr Karen Counter===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Colin Mendelsohn, MB BS===
===Professor Nick Crofts AM===
*[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/ Source: Bio, Photo, and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn Follow on Twitter]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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[[file:Australia Dr Colin Mendelsohn.png|center|alt=Dr Colin Mendelsohn "Vaping can be used as a short term quitting aid or as a long-term strategy to avoid going back to smoking and is at least 95% safer than smoking"|Dr Colin Mendelsohn]]
 
===Professor Richard (Ric) Day AM===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Fiona Patten MP===
===Professor Paul Dietze===
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[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[https://twitter.com/FionaPattenMLC Follow on Twitter]
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===Kathryn Steadman, PhD===
===Professor Kate Dolan===
*[https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1732 Photo and Bio] / [https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2020/38/access-to-nicotine-vaping-products-more-conversation-needed/ Quote Source]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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[[file:Australia Kathryn Steadman, PhD.png|center|alt=Kathryn Steadman, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland:  "The greater barriers to accessing NVPs [nicotine vapor products] than cigarettes are a strong disincentive to switching from cigarettes to NVPs."|Kathryn Steadman, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland]]
 
===Professor Adrian Dunlop===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Judith Watt===
===Conjoint Associate Professor Nadine Ezard===
Former Executive Director, NCD Alliance - Former Director, Quit Victoria,
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of name]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Coral Gartner, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/CoralGartner Follow on Twitter] / [https://itcproject.org/about/itc-staff/coral-gartner/ Photo and Bio] / [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.14126?author_access_token=Iq2zXQPIiC9pIFHxgIjR0Yta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC66mZgD27qP0Rw3PMGJSs1Z1BOVJ6Kk0snDOJ_2oEvnxMeqAhhOpCDtelu5OHb8LONPYFEOUv5iYHl5UbXiNowgw Quote Source]
[[file:Australia Coral Gartner, PhD.png|center|alt=Coral Gartner, PhD, School of Public Health Faculty of Medicine Queensland University: "Banning non-therapeutic nicotine vaping products is ethically problematic, because it denies addicted smokers access to a less harmful alternative product and an additional means of quitting smoking."|Coral Gartner, PhD]]
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===Dr. Alex Wodak AM===
===Professor Charles Gilks===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.athra.org.au/board-of-directors/dr-alex-wodak-am/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/AlexWodak Follow on Twitter]
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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[[file:Australia Dr Alex Wodak AM.png|center|alt=Dr Alex Wodak AM "Opposition to reduced risk nicotine options inevitably protects the smoking of tobacco which is responsible for the deaths of over half of long term smokers. Vaping is now not only the world's most popular stop smoking aid, but the most effective"|Dr Alex Wodak AM]]
 
===Rohan Glasgow===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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='''Austria'''=
===Dr Robert Graham===
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of name]
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===Dr Ashleigh Guillaumier===
[https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/ashleigh-guillaumier Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/LegaliseVaping/status/1544428712233279489 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/Ash_Guillaumier Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia McCarter and Guillaumier .png|center]]
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===Ernest Groman, MD===
===Wayne Hall, PHD===
*[https://hrakademie.eu/en/who-we-are/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.businesswire.com/news/hk-zh/20220609006003/en/New-Report-Highlights-That-the-Czech-Republic-Could-Serve-as-a-Model-for-the-EU-in-Addressing-Smoking-Prevalence Quote Source]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1067 Bio and Photo]
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[[file:Austria Ernest Groman, MD.png|center|alt=Ernest Groman MD "The data show the abstinence approach is inadequate. The soulution for smokers is to switch to less harmful alternatives"|Ernest Groman MD]]
[[file:Australia Wayne Hall PhD.png|center|alt=Wayne Hall PhD "A MORE BALANCED AND SENSIBLE PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY WOULD ALLOW [PEOPLE WHO SMOKE] TO ACCESS E-CIGARETTES IN WAYS THAT MINIMISE YOUTH UPTAKE AND MAXIMISE THE POTENTIAL FOR E-CIGARETTES TO ELIMINATE THE GLOBAL USE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS"|Wayne Hall PhD]]
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===Bernhard-Michael Mayer, PhD===
===Dr David Helliwell===
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[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[https://twitter.com/beli_erf Follow on Twitter]
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Karl-Franzens-Universität
Graz
Austria
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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='''Belgium'''=
===Senator Hollie Hughes===
[https://twitter.com/hollieahughes Follow on Twitter]
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===Dr William Huang===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Karolien Adriaens, PhD===
===Dr David Jacka===
*[https://ppw.kuleuven.be/clep/people/00085648 Photo and Bio] / [https://www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/2020/279-lett-dutch Quote Source]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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[[file:Belgium Karolien Adriaens, PhD.png|center|alt=Karolien Adriaens PhD Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium "Banning flavoured e-cigarettes will discourage smokers from switching, witch leads to the unintended consequences of continuous and prolonged smoking"|Karolien Adriaens]]
 
===Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Keane===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Frank Baeyens, PhD===
===Dr Joe Kosterich===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/FBaeyens Follow on Twitter]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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[[file:Belgium Frank Baeyens, PhD.png|center|alt=Frank Baeyens PhD Professor of Psychology, KU Leuven Belgium "Vaping is significantly less harmful than smoking" "E-cigarettes are a valuble tool for many smokers to help them quit smoking" "Regular vaping in non smokeres is rare and there is no evidence of a 'gateway effect' from vaping to smoking" "WHO's stance on THR is anti scientific, morally reprehensible and diametrically opposed to it's primary mission: it costs lives rather than saving them"|Frank Baeyens]]
 
===Rebecca Lang===
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWqdz2VZcc Source of name]
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='''Brazil'''=
===Nicole Lee, PhD===
[https://twitter.com/DrNicoleLee Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/DrNicoleLee/status/1638085993357271042 Quote Source] / [https://ndri.curtin.edu.au/people/profile/931 Bio]
[[file:Australia Nicole Lee PhD.png|center|alt=Nicole Lee, PhD Adjunct Professor, National Drug Research Institute Director, 360Edge: "The question is HOW they are regulated. ‘Regulation’ through prescription is not working and has enhanced the massive black market. If a policy is broken we need to fix it. I don’t have a bias, I have a strong view based on the evidence. I’m not pro vaping. I’m pro harm reduction."|Nicole Lee, PhD Adjunct Professor, National Drug Research Institute Director, 360Edge]]
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===Professor Nicholas Lintzeris===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Silvia Cazenave. PHD.===
===Dr Michael Lowy===
PHD in Toxicology and Master in Toxicological Analysis.
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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===Dr Brad Mackay===
[https://twitter.com/DrBradMcKay Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/drbradmckay/status/984279961681911808 Quote Source] / [https://www.eastsydneydoctors.com.au/bradmckay Bio]
[[file:Australia Dr Brad Mackay.png|center]]
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===Monica Gorgulho===
 
Clinical psychology. Masters in Social Psychology. University of São Paulo, Brazil. Harm Reduction Specialist.
===Dr Annie Madden AO===
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Professor Lisa Maher AM===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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='''Canada'''=
===Associate Professor Victoria Manning===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Dr Kristen McCarter===
[https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/kristen-mccarter Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/LegaliseVaping/status/1544428712233279489 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/MccarterKristen Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia McCarter and Guillaumier .png|center]]
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===Michael Chaiton===
===Associate Professor Mike McDonough===
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[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[https://twitter.com/MichaelChaiton Follow on Twitter]
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===Colin Mendelsohn, MB BS===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/ Source: Bio, Photo, and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia Dr Colin Mendelsohn.png|center|alt=Dr Colin Mendelsohn "Vaping can be used as a short term quitting aid or as a long-term strategy to avoid going back to smoking and is at least 95% safer than smoking"|Dr Colin Mendelsohn]]
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===Patrick Fafard, PhD===
 
Full Professor
===Dr David Outridge===
Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
University of Ottawa
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Dr Peter Parry===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Kellie Ann Forbes BScN===  
 
[https://vaepworld.com/the-woman-behind-it-all/ Here]  
===Fiona Patten MP===
[https://twitter.com/FionaPattenMLC Follow on Twitter]
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===Mr Garth Popple===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Amelia Howard, Sociologist===
 
*[https://twitter.com/Amelia_RH Follow on Twitter]  / [https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yNyRhNe0liQ_uP3tSEcaLV9JB-gLyMEnCuE8aLBtPc/edit?usp=sharing Quote Source]  
===Evert Rauwendaal===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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[[file:Canada Amelia Howard.png|center]]
 
===Professor Robyn Richmond===
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of name]
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===Ian Irvine, PhD===
 
*[https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/ian-irvine-%E2%80%93-smart-youth-drive-enormous-smoking-declines Quote] / [https://www.cdhowe.org/our-people/ian-irvine Bio] / [https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2020/10/20/dont-expect-a-cannabis-tax-windfall-says-concordia-economist.html Photo]
===Professor Alison Ritter AO FASSA===
*See also: [https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/attachments/research_papers/mixed/Commmentary_600_0.pdf The Taxation of  Nicotine in Canada:  A Harm-Reduction  Approach to the  Profusion of New Products]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*Disclosure. I have advised the federal government of Canada on alcohol and tobacco policy, and also advised lawyers in the private sector on tobacco.
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[[file:Canada Ian Irvine PhD.png|center|alt=Ian Irvine PhD Professor of Economics at Concordia University, research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute "The federal government is currently proposing to place very severe restrictions on the vaping market in the form of nicotine content limits and flavour bans. It should be wary of killing the cigarette extinguishing golden goose."|Ian Irvine PhD]]
 
===Dr Fares Samara===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)===
 
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name] / [https://twitter.com/DocteurJuneau/status/1588524651676069888 Quote] / [Dr. Martin Juneau, M.D.|Source of Photo] / [https://twitter.com/DocteurJuneau Follow on Twitter]
===Professor Julian Savulescu===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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[[file:Canada Martin Juneau.png|center|alt=Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C) "In recent years electronic cigarettes have emerged as a valid alternative to tobacco cigarettes to reduce the harmful effects of smoking on health."|Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)]]
 
===Dr Catherine Silsbury===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Chris Lalonde, PhD===
 
*[https://twitter.com/lalondechris Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEGdduW0h0I&t=800s Quote Source] / [https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/psychology/people/faculty-directory/lalondechristopher.php Photo and Bio]
===Kathryn Steadman, PhD===
[https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1732 Photo and Bio] / [https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2020/38/access-to-nicotine-vaping-products-more-conversation-needed/ Quote Source]
[[file:Australia Kathryn Steadman, PhD.png|center|alt=Kathryn Steadman, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland:  "The greater barriers to accessing NVPs [nicotine vapor products] than cigarettes are a strong disincentive to switching from cigarettes to NVPs."|Kathryn Steadman, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland]]
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[[file:Canada Chris Lalonde PhD.png|center|alt=Chris Lalonde PhD "To the extent that you make vaping less accessible, less affordable, then you're going to prevent the very people who are the most likely to benefit from it from accessing it. What kind of government and what kind of science, would support that? It turns out we're living it."|Chris Lalonde PhD]]
 
===Dr Penelope Truman===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Clifford Garfield Mahood, O.C.===
===Dr Ingrid van Beek AM===
Founding Executive Director (1976-2012)
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
Non-Smokers’ Rights Association
Toronto
Canada
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Dr Thomas Vandeleur===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Dr John Oyston===
 
*[https://oyston.com/blog/disruptive/ Source: Photo and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/JohnOyston Follow on Twitter]
===Gino Vumbaca OAM===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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[[file:Canada Dr John Oyston.png|center]]
 
===Dr Brian Walker MLC===
[https://web.archive.org/web/20230528065144/https://twitter.com/BrianWalkerMLC/status/1597511390960287744 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/BrianWalkerMLC Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia Dr Brian Walker.png|center|alt=Dr Brian Walker "1. Cigs have NOT been beaten YET. 2. Vaping has been proven to help reduce smoking. 3. Banning vapes is an excellent way of preventing smoking cessation success"|Dr Brian Walker]]
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===David Sweanor, JD===
 
[https://www.newswire.com/news/new-study-underscores-how-heated-tobacco-products-are-disrupting-the-21153567 Quote Source] / [https://commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/people/sweanor-david Bio and Photo]
===Judith Watt===
Former Executive Director, NCD Alliance - Former Director, Quit Victoria,
[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:Canada David Sweanor, JD.png|center|alt=David Sweanor JD, Policy and Ethics Ajdunct Proffesor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa "Ensuring that a range of low-risk alternatives are not only on the market but have regulatory and tax advantages over cigarettes has the potential to transform public health. We have long known people smoke for nicotine but die from the smoke. Cigarette smoking is a public health catastrophe that can be massively reduced through science and technology if policies can be oriented toward replacing rather than protecting the cigarette business" |David Sweanor JD]]
 
===Professor Ian Webster AO===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
<br>
<br>
===Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh===
 
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedadebassigetoeg/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/coalition-of-clinicians-public-policy-experts-and-first-nations-join-forces-to-reduce-incidences-of-cigarette-smoking-on-reserves-820547285.html Quote Source]
===Ian Webster AO===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
<br>
 
===Dr Megan Weir===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Canada Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh.png|center|alt=Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh, President Aboriginal Pharmacists Association of Canada: "My concern is that harm reduction tools and awareness about alternatives to cigarette use are not available to First Nations"  "When given the option to reduce the incidences of smoking , I believe we can substantially reduce overall health risks to First Nations – especially at a time when our people are more vulnerable to harm than the majority of non-First Nations"|Neda Debassige Toeg BSP RPh, President Aboriginal Pharmacists Association of Canada]]
 
===Associate Professor Martin Weltman===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
<br>
<br>
===Mark Tyndall MD ScD FRCPC===
 
*[https://twitter.com/DrMtyndall Follow on Twitter] / [https://filtermag.org/safe-supply-vaping/ Quote Source] / [https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/mark-tyndall-appointed-director-ubc-centre-for-disease-control/ Photo and Bio]
===Associate Professor Scott Wilson===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Canada Mark Tyndall.png|center|alt=Mark Tyndall, Founder of My Safe Society “Around 2012 I heard about vaping. This was the very definition of harm reduction: taking an inherently risky activity and making it way less risky. … The amazing thing about vaping was that for many people, it was even more attractive and satisfying than cigarettes.”  “Yet eight years later, who would have thought that throwing a lifeline to people who smoke cigarettes would be so contentious? It should have been a slam-dunk. By now, leading public health authorities around the world should have launched global campaigns to rid the world of cigarettes through vaping. But that just hasn’t happened.”|Mark Tyndall, Founder of My Safe Society]]
 
===Dr. Alex Wodak AM===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.athra.org.au/board-of-directors/dr-alex-wodak-am/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/AlexWodak Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia Dr Alex Wodak AM.png|center|alt=Dr Alex Wodak AM "Opposition to reduced risk nicotine options inevitably protects the smoking of tobacco which is responsible for the deaths of over half of long term smokers. Vaping is now not only the world's most popular stop smoking aid, but the most effective"|Dr Alex Wodak AM]]
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<br>


='''Chili'''=
='''Austria'''=




===Hernán Prat Martorell, MD, PhD===
===Ernest Groman, MD===
Professor at the University of Chile. Former Director of the Cardiovascular Department of the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile. Former president of the Chilean Society of Hypertension.
*[https://hrakademie.eu/en/who-we-are/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.businesswire.com/news/hk-zh/20220609006003/en/New-Report-Highlights-That-the-Czech-Republic-Could-Serve-as-a-Model-for-the-EU-in-Addressing-Smoking-Prevalence Quote Source]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Austria Ernest Groman, MD.png|center|alt=Ernest Groman MD "The data show the abstinence approach is inadequate. The soulution for smokers is to switch to less harmful alternatives"|Ernest Groman MD]]
<br>
<br>
===Alejandro Erices Ocampo. PHD===
 
Biochemist – Doctor of Science – Post-doctorate in Neurosciences.
===Professor Michael Kunze, MD===
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
*[https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/about-us/news/detailsite/2016/news-in-october-2016/michael-kunze-elected-to-board-of-directors-of-the-european-association-of-professors-emeriti/?L=3Oswald Photo and Bio] / [https://ec.europa.eu/health/archive/ph_overview/documents/refl/ev20041015_co_058_en.pdf Quote Source]  
<br>
<br>
===Daniel Kleiman Priewer. MD.===
Specialist in Traumatology - Orthopedics. Sports injuries. Joint Preservation and Osteoarthritis.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Austria Michael Kunze MD.png|center|alt=Professor Michael Kunze, MD, Medical University Vienna, Center for Public Health:  "One has to acknowledge, nicotine is a very widely used psychoactive drug, and itself not very harmful to human health as far as the risk for cardiovascular diseases or cancer is concerned. One additional issue for the future would be a need to provide nicotine in the most harmless way to people who do not want or cannot yet stop smoking. "|Professor Michael Kunze, MD, Medical University Vienna, Center for Public Health]]
<br>
<br>


='''Colombia'''=
===Bernhard-Michael Mayer, PhD===
*
*[https://twitter.com/beli_erf Follow on Twitter]
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Karl-Franzens-Universität
Graz
Austria
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
 
='''Belgium'''=




===Dr. Ramon Calderon===
===Karolien Adriaens, PhD===
Brazil, Colombia, Spain and Mexico - Doctor in medicine. Plastic Surgeon
*[https://ppw.kuleuven.be/clep/people/00085648 Photo and Bio] / [https://www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/2020/279-lett-dutch Quote Source]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Belgium Karolien Adriaens, PhD.png|center|alt=Karolien Adriaens PhD Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium "Banning flavoured e-cigarettes will discourage smokers from switching, witch leads to the unintended consequences of continuous and prolonged smoking"|Karolien Adriaens]]
<br>
<br>
===Dr. Ana Maria Diaz===
 
PhD in Bioethics.
===Frank Baeyens, PhD===
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/FBaeyens Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Belgium Frank Baeyens, PhD.png|center|alt=Frank Baeyens PhD Professor of Psychology, KU Leuven Belgium "Vaping is significantly less harmful than smoking" "E-cigarettes are a valuble tool for many smokers to help them quit smoking" "Regular vaping in non smokeres is rare and there is no evidence of a 'gateway effect' from vaping to smoking" "WHO's stance on THR is anti scientific, morally reprehensible and diametrically opposed to it's primary mission: it costs lives rather than saving them"|Frank Baeyens]]
<br>
<br>
===Hugo Caballero Durán, MD===
 
Former president of the Colombian Society of
='''Brazil'''=
Pneumology.
 
Former Clinical Scientific Director of Marly Clinic.
 
Director of the Pneumology and Respiratory
===Silvia Cazenave. PHD.===
Therapy Service, Marly Clinic
PHD in Toxicology and Master in Toxicological Analysis.
Bogotá, Colombia
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
*[https://twitter.com/HugoCaballeroD3 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
 
===Monica Gorgulho===
='''Costa Rica'''=
Clinical psychology. Masters in Social Psychology. University of São Paulo, Brazil. Harm Reduction Specialist.
 
 
===Dr. Randall Rodríguez Obando.===
Doctor in medicine. Specialist in Harm Reduction in patients with HIV.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>


='''Czech Republic'''=
='''Canada'''=




===Pavel Bém MD===
===Michael Chaiton===
Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
*
Head of the Clinical Department, Adictology Clinic,
*[https://twitter.com/MichaelChaiton Follow on Twitter]
Charles University
<br>
Former Mayor of Prague
<br>
Member of The National Drug Commission
===Patrick Fafard, PhD===
Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
Full Professor
Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
University of Ottawa
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Eva Králíková, MD===
Professor
Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
Centre for Tobacco-Dependence
First Faculty of Medicine and General Hospital
Charles University Prague
Czech Republic
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
 
===Kellie Ann Forbes BScN===  
='''Democratic Republic of the Congo'''=
*[https://vaep.info/Kellie-Ann/ Photo,Bio, and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/VAEPinfo Follow VAEP on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellie-ann-forbes/ Follow on LinkedIn]  
 
 
===Samuel Mukandi, BA===
*[https://twitter.com/samuelmukandi Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Canada Kellie Ann Forbes, BScN.png|center|alt=Kellie Ann Forbes, BScN, Founding member of VAEP: "I am satisfied that vaping is not only exceedingly less harmful than smoking but it is an appealing alternative to current smokers and is preventing future smokers."|Kellie Ann Forbes, BScN, Founding member of VAEP]]
<br>
<br>


='''Ecuador'''=
===Amelia Howard, Sociologist===
 
*[https://twitter.com/Amelia_RH Follow on Twitter]  / [https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yNyRhNe0liQ_uP3tSEcaLV9JB-gLyMEnCuE8aLBtPc/edit?usp=sharing Quote Source]  
 
===Dr. Pablo Gallo===
Ecuador and Spain - Doctor of Medicine and vascular surgeon specialized in the study and treatment of both arterial pathology and venous pathology and, above all, pelvic venous pathology
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Canada Amelia Howard.png|center]]
<br>
===Ian Irvine, PhD===
*[https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/ian-irvine-%E2%80%93-smart-youth-drive-enormous-smoking-declines Quote] / [https://www.cdhowe.org/our-people/ian-irvine Bio] / [https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2020/10/20/dont-expect-a-cannabis-tax-windfall-says-concordia-economist.html Photo]
*See also: [https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/attachments/research_papers/mixed/Commmentary_600_0.pdf The Taxation of  Nicotine in Canada:  A Harm-Reduction  Approach to the  Profusion of  New Products]
*Disclosure. I have advised the federal government of Canada on alcohol and tobacco policy, and also advised lawyers in the private sector on tobacco.
<br>
[[file:Canada Ian Irvine PhD.png|center|alt=Ian Irvine PhD Professor of Economics at Concordia University, research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute "The federal government is currently proposing to place very severe restrictions on the vaping market in the form of nicotine content limits and flavour bans. It should be wary of killing the cigarette extinguishing golden goose."|Ian Irvine PhD]]
<br>
<br>
===César Paz y Miño, MD, PhD===
===Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)===
Director, Centro de Investigacion Genética y
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name] / [https://twitter.com/DocteurJuneau/status/1588524651676069888 Quote] / [Dr. Martin Juneau, M.D.|Source of Photo] / [https://twitter.com/DocteurJuneau Follow on Twitter]
Genómica and Specialist in Genetics and Human
Molecular Biology
Universidad UTE
Quito, Ecuador
*[https://twitter.com/CesarPaz_y_Mino Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Canada Martin Juneau.png|center|alt=Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C) "In recent years electronic cigarettes have emerged as a valid alternative to tobacco cigarettes to reduce the harmful effects of smoking on health."|Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Chris Lalonde, PhD===
===Tanya Soria. MD.===
*[https://twitter.com/lalondechris Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEGdduW0h0I&t=800s Quote Source] / [https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/psychology/people/faculty-directory/lalondechristopher.php Photo and Bio]
Clinical Oncologist.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Canada Chris Lalonde PhD.png|center|alt=Chris Lalonde PhD "To the extent that you make vaping less accessible, less affordable, then you're going to prevent the very people who are the most likely to benefit from it from accessing it. What kind of government and what kind of science, would support that? It turns out we're living it."|Chris Lalonde PhD]]
<br>
===Clifford Garfield Mahood, O.C.===
Founding Executive Director (1976-2012)
Non-Smokers’ Rights Association
Toronto
Canada
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Enrique Teran, MD, PhD===
Professor
College of Health Sciences - Universidad San
Francisco de Quito.
Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine
Academy of Science of Ecuador
Ecuador
*[https://twitter.com/e_teran_ec Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Dr John Oyston===
*[https://oyston.com/blog/disruptive/ Source: Photo and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/JohnOyston Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
 
[[file:Canada Dr John Oyston.png|center]]
===Francisco E. Urrestra. MD.===
Medical Director
Hospital Clinica Metropolitana. Ibarra.
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===James (Jim) Rankin===
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of name]
<br>
<br>
='''El Salvador'''=


 
===David Sweanor, JD===
===Dr. Edward Wollants===
[https://www.newswire.com/news/new-study-underscores-how-heated-tobacco-products-are-disrupting-the-21153567 Quote Source] / [https://commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/people/sweanor-david Bio and Photo]
Internist and nutritionist.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Canada David Sweanor, JD.png|center|alt=David Sweanor JD, Policy and Ethics Ajdunct Proffesor, Faculty of Law, University of  Ottawa "Ensuring that a range of low-risk alternatives are not only on the market but have regulatory and tax advantages over cigarettes has the potential to transform public health. We have long known people smoke for nicotine but die from the smoke. Cigarette smoking is a public health catastrophe that can be massively reduced through science and technology if policies can be oriented toward replacing rather than protecting the cigarette business" |David Sweanor JD]]
<br>
<br>


='''England/(UK)'''=
===Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh===
 
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedadebassigetoeg/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/coalition-of-clinicians-public-policy-experts-and-first-nations-join-forces-to-reduce-incidences-of-cigarette-smoking-on-reserves-820547285.html Quote Source]
 
===Adam Afriyie, BSc===
*[https://twitter.com/AdamAfriyie Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.adamafriyie.org/about-adam Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/thegtnf/status/1578007544425062407 Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK Adam Afriyie, BSc.png|center|alt=Adam Afriyie, BSc, Chair of Parliamentary Office Science and Technology "Around 50% Medical Practitioners didn't know smoking was more harmful than vaping"|Adam Afriyie, BSc, Chair of Parliamentary Office Science and Technology]]
[[file:Canada Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh.png|center|alt=Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh, President Aboriginal Pharmacists Association of Canada: "My concern is that harm reduction tools and awareness about alternatives to cigarette use are not available to First Nations" "When given the option to reduce the incidences of smoking , I believe we can substantially reduce overall health risks to First Nations – especially at a time when our people are more vulnerable to harm than the majority of non-First Nations"|Neda Debassige Toeg BSP RPh, President Aboriginal Pharmacists Association of Canada]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Mark Tyndall MD ScD FRCPC===
===Sanjay Agrawal, MD, MBChB===
*[https://twitter.com/DrMtyndall Follow on Twitter] / [https://filtermag.org/safe-supply-vaping/ Quote Source] / [https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/mark-tyndall-appointed-director-ubc-centre-for-disease-control/ Photo and Bio]
*[https://twitter.com/LeicesterLungs Follow on Twitter] / [https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/dim-spotlight-sanjay-agrawal-md/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1334476344537837571 Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK Sanjay Agrawal MD.png|center|alt=Sanjay Agrawal MD, Professor of Respiratory medicine University Leicester, Chair of Royal Collage Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group: "We want to make e-cigarettes attractive to smokers who are trying to quit. That's the point. For many people, adding flavours, and taking away the taste of tobacco is quite helpful" |Sanjay Agrawal MD, Professor of Respiratory medicine University Leicester, Chair of Royal Collage Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group]]
[[file:Canada Mark Tyndall.png|center|alt=Mark Tyndall, Founder of My Safe Society “Around 2012 I heard about vaping. This was the very definition of harm reduction: taking an inherently risky activity and making it way less risky. … The amazing thing about vaping was that for many people, it was even more attractive and satisfying than cigarettes.”  “Yet eight years later, who would have thought that throwing a lifeline to people who smoke cigarettes would be so contentious? It should have been a slam-dunk. By now, leading public health authorities around the world should have launched global campaigns to rid the world of cigarettes through vaping. But that just hasn’t happened.”|Mark Tyndall, Founder of My Safe Society]]
<br>
<br>


===Deborah Arnott===
='''Chile'''=
*[https://ash.org.uk/media-and-news/ash-spokespeople/ Bio] / [https://vapemagz.co.id/lifestyle/e-cigarette-summit-2019-larangan-vape-bukan-solusi/ Photo] / [http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bmj.h3317.full_.pdf Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/DeborahArnott Follow on Twitter]
<br>
[[file:England UK Deborah Arnott.png|center|alt=Deborah Arnott, MBA, CEO ASH-UK “There are people in the public health community who are obsessed by e-cigarettes”  "That because there is so much bad publicity about them, people’s understanding about the relative risk of smoking and e-cigarettes is being undermined. The risk is that smokers who could potentially use these as an alternative to smoking are being discouraged, and that’s not a good thing.” "Do you want the tobacco industry to carry on making cigarettes which are highly addictive and kill when used as intended, or do you want them to move to a product which is much nearer licensed nicotine replacement therapy and is unlikely to kill anyone?”|Deborah Arnott, MBA, CEO ASH-UK]]
<br>


===Prof Paul Aveyard===
*[https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-unpublished-conference-presentation-claiming-e-cigarette-users-face-15-higher-risk-of-stroke-at-a-younger-age-than-traditional-smokers/ Source of name]
<br>


===Clive Bates===
===Hernán Prat Martorell, MD, PhD===
[https://filtermag.org/vaping-arguments-health/ Quote Source] / [https://www.e-cigarette-summit.us.com/speaker/clive-bates/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates Follow on Twitter]
Professor at the University of Chile. Former Director of the Cardiovascular Department of the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile. Former president of the Chilean Society of Hypertension.
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK Clive Bates.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Alejandro Erices Ocampo. PHD===
===Emma V Beard===
Biochemist – Doctor of Science – Post-doctorate in Neurosciences.
*[https://twitter.com/DrEVBeard Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
 
===Daniel Kleiman Priewer. MD.===
===John Britton, MD===
Specialist in Traumatology - Orthopedics. Sports injuries. Joint Preservation and Osteoarthritis.
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://www.festivalofpublichealth.co.uk/keynotespeakers/pastkeynotespeakers/professorjohnbritton/ Bio and Photo]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK John Britton, MD.png|center|alt=John Britton, MD, Director UK Center For Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Professor of Epidemiology University Nottingham "Health policy should be driven by science, not prejudice or dogma. Vaping has already provided an effective gateway out of smoking for millions of people, unequivocally benefiting individual smokers, public health and wider society." |John Britton, MD, Director UK Center For Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Professor of Epidemiology University Nottingham ]]
<br>
<br>


===Dr Leonie Brose===
='''Colombia'''=
*[https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/825503 Source of name]
 
<br>


===Sharon Cox, PhD===
===Dr. Ramon Calderon===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=SACOX23 Bio] / [https://twitter.com/Sharon_ACox/status/1545102475648196608 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Sharon_ACox Follow on Twitter]
Brazil, Colombia, Spain and Mexico - Doctor in medicine. Plastic Surgeon
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK Sharon Cox PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Dr. Ana Maria Diaz===
===Lynne Dawkins, PhD===
PhD in Bioethics.
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people/people-finder/dr-lynne-dawkins Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/LynneDawkins Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
*Disclosures: I have provided consultancy for the pharmaceutical industry relating to the development of smoking cessation products. I have no conflicts with respect to the tobacco or e-cigarette industry.
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK Lynne Dawkings PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Hugo Caballero Durán, MD===
===Martin Dockrell===
Former president of the Colombian Society of
*[https://twitter.com/SwitchFinder Follow on Twitter]
Pneumology.
Former Clinical Scientific Director of Marly Clinic.
Director of the Pneumology and Respiratory
Therapy Service, Marly Clinic
Bogotá, Colombia
*[https://twitter.com/HugoCaballeroD3 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
<br>


===Dr Matthew Evison===
='''Costa Rica'''=
*[https://twitter.com/MatthewEvison1 Follow on Twitter] / [https://mft.nhs.uk/wythenshawe/consultants/dr-matthew-evison/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/MatthewEvison1/status/1448297933464559622 Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:England UK Dr Matthew Evison .png|center]]
<br>


===Jonathan Fell===
*[https://twitter.com/JonFell73 Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-fell-54065554/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.vapingpost.com/2021/06/25/the-8th-global-forum-on-nicotine-gfn21/ Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:England UK Jon Fell.png|center]]
<br>


===Floe Foxon, BSc===
===Dr. Randall Rodríguez Obando.===
*[https://twitter.com/FloeFoxon Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/FloeFoxon/status/1448302299013582849 Quote Source] / [https://floefoxon.github.io/ Photo] / [https://www.pinneyassociates.com/team/floe-foxon/ Bio]
Doctor in medicine. Specialist in Harm Reduction in patients with HIV.
*(Disclosures - Pinney & Associates does consulting for the Pharmaceutical Industry and for JUUL )
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:England UK Floe Foxon BSc.png|center]]
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===Suzi Gage===
='''Czech Republic'''=
*[https://twitter.com/soozaphone Follow on Twitter]
 
 
===Pavel Bém MD===
Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
Head of the Clinical Department, Adictology Clinic,
Charles University
Former Mayor of Prague
Member of The National Drug Commission
Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Eva Králíková, MD===
Professor
Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
Centre for Tobacco-Dependence
First Faculty of Medicine and General Hospital
Charles University Prague
Czech Republic
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Stuart Griffiths, PhD===
='''Democratic Republic of the Congo'''=
*[https://vaporvoice.net/2022/01/04/another-u-k-community-to-offer-free-vapes-to-smokers/ Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartpgriffiths/?originalSubdomain=uk Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/Stu_P_Griffiths Follow on Twitter]
 
 
===Samuel Mukandi, BA===
*[https://twitter.com/samuelmukandi Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-mukandi-a920ab41/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/SamuelMukandi/status/1101185159909556224 Quote Source]
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[[file:England UK Stuart Griffiths, PhD.png|center|alt=Stuart Griffiths, PhD, Director of Research, Services, and Policy, Yorkshire Cancer Research: "When it comes to helping people quit for good, being able to offer vaping products is essential. They are an incredibly effective aid in helping people give up cigarettes.”|Stuart Griffiths, PhD, Director of Research, Services, and Policy, Yorkshire Cancer Research]]
[[file:DRC Samuel Mukandi, BA.png|center|alt=Samuel Mukandi, BA, Managing Director, Tradelines Group. Chairman Of The Board, Tobacco Harm Reduction DRC: "Vapor technology is one of the most significant public health innovations of the century, and to conflate it with deadly Tobacco products is entirely inappropriate and irresponsible."|Samuel Mukandi, BA, Managing Director, Tradelines Group. Chairman Of The Board, Tobacco Harm Reduction DRC]]
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===Peter Hajek, PhD===
='''Ecuador'''=
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20220121053415/https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/people/profiles/hajekpeter.html Bio and Photo]
 
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[[file:England UK Peter Hajek, PhD.png|center]]
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===David Halpern===
===Dr. Pablo Gallo===
*We should deliberately seek to make e-cigs widely available, and to use regulation not to ban them but to improve their quality and reliability.
Ecuador and Spain - Doctor of Medicine and vascular surgeon specialized in the study and treatment of both arterial pathology and venous pathology and, above all, pelvic venous pathology
*[https://filtermag.org/uk-vaping-saves-lives/ Quote Source]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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<br>
===Benjamin Human===
*[https://twitter.com/thehuman94 Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/thehuman94/status/1464197074635964416 Source of name]
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===César Paz y Miño, MD, PhD===
===Sarah Jackson, PhD, MSc===
Director, Centro de Investigacion Genética y
*[https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-nicotine-vaping-in-england-an-evidence-update-as-published-by-the-office-for-health-improvement-and-disparities-ohid-and-authored-by-scientists-at-kcl/ Quote] / [https://twitter.com/vpasouthafrica/status/1194959067816615936 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/DrSarahEJackson Follow on Twitter]
Genómica and Specialist in Genetics and Human
Molecular Biology
Universidad UTE
Quito, Ecuador
*[https://twitter.com/CesarPaz_y_Mino Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:England UK Sarah Jackson PhD.png|center]]
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===Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD===
===Tanya Soria. MD.===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hbrc/tobacco/jarvism.html Bio and Photo]
Clinical Oncologist.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Enrique Teran, MD, PhD===
Professor
College of Health Sciences - Universidad San
Francisco de Quito.
Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine
Academy of Science of Ecuador
Ecuador
*[https://twitter.com/e_teran_ec Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:England UK Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD.png|center]]
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===Patricia Kovacevic, JD===
===Francisco E. Urrestra. MD.===
*[https://twitter.com/patriciakova Follow on Twitter] / [https://tobaccoreporter.com/2022/04/05/women-in-tobacco-to-meet-in-paris/ Photo] / [https://regulationstrategy.com/patricia-kovacevic/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/patriciakova/status/1610989194410692608 Quote Source]
Medical Director
*Disclosures: General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Nicopure Labs, 2015 - 2020, General Counsel to Lorrilard and PMI 2004 - 2015
Hospital Clinica Metropolitana. Ibarra.
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:UK US Patricia Kovacevic, JD.png|center]]
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='''El Salvador'''=


===Sir Norman Lamb===
[https://twitter.com/commonsstc/status/1030424754463952896 Graphics Source] / [https://twitter.com/normanlamb Follow on Twitter]
[[File:England UK Norman Lamb.png|center|]]
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===Rosemary Leonard, MBE, MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, DRCOG===
===Dr. Edward Wollants===
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://patient.info/authors/dr-rosemary-leonard-mbe Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrRosemaryL Follow on Twitter]
Internist and nutritionist.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:England UK Rosemary Leonard.png|center]]
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===Olivia M Maynard, PhD===
='''England/(UK)'''=
*[https://twitter.com/OliviaMaynard17 Follow on Twitter]
 
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science
 
Bristol Population Health Science Institute
===Adam Afriyie, BSc===
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
*[https://twitter.com/AdamAfriyie Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.adamafriyie.org/about-adam Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/thegtnf/status/1578007544425062407 Quote Source]
Bristol,
<br>
United Kingdom
[[file:England UK Adam Afriyie, BSc.png|center|alt=Adam Afriyie, BSc, Chair of Parliamentary Office Science and Technology "Around 50% Medical Practitioners didn't know smoking was more harmful than vaping"|Adam Afriyie, BSc, Chair of Parliamentary Office Science and Technology]]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH===
===Sanjay Agrawal, MD, MBChB===
*[https://twitter.com/jimmcmanusph Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/LeicesterLungs Follow on Twitter] / [https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/dim-spotlight-sanjay-agrawal-md/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1334476344537837571 Quote Source]
[https://jimmcmanus.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/how-and-why-i-changed-my-mind-on-e-cigarettes/ Jim McManus, Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire: How and why I changed my mind on e-cigarettes,]
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[[file:England UK Sanjay Agrawal MD.png|center|alt=Sanjay Agrawal MD, Professor of Respiratory medicine University Leicester, Chair of Royal Collage Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group: "We want to make e-cigarettes attractive to smokers who are trying to quit. That's the point. For many people, adding flavours, and taking away the taste of tobacco is quite helpful" |Sanjay Agrawal MD, Professor of Respiratory medicine University Leicester, Chair of Royal Collage Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group]]
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===Deborah Arnott===
*[https://ash.org.uk/media-and-news/ash-spokespeople/ Bio] / [https://vapemagz.co.id/lifestyle/e-cigarette-summit-2019-larangan-vape-bukan-solusi/ Photo] / [http://tobacco.cleartheair.org.hk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bmj.h3317.full_.pdf Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/DeborahArnott Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:England UK Deborah Arnott.png|center|alt=Deborah Arnott, MBA, CEO ASH-UK “There are people in the public health community who are obsessed by e-cigarettes”  "That because there is so much bad publicity about them, people’s understanding about the relative risk of smoking and e-cigarettes is being undermined. The risk is that smokers who could potentially use these as an alternative to smoking are being discouraged, and that’s not a good thing.” "Do you want the tobacco industry to carry on making cigarettes which are highly addictive and kill when used as intended, or do you want them to move to a product which is much nearer licensed nicotine replacement therapy and is unlikely to kill anyone?”|Deborah Arnott, MBA, CEO ASH-UK]]
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===Ann McNeill, PhD===
===Prof Paul Aveyard===
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1577297018417987585 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ann-mcneill Bio]
*[https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/paul-aveyard Photo and Bio] / [https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/research-in-conversation/healthy-body-healthy-mind/paul-aveyard Quote Source]
[[file:UK - Ann McNeill.png|center]]
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[[file:England UK Paul Aveyard PhD.png|center|alt=Paul Aveyard, PhD FRCP FRCGP FFPH PROFESSOR OF BEHAVIOURAL MEDICINE Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences: "Within a few years, the e-cigarette has taken off and meant that people are using it to stop, or reduce, their smoking in huge numbers. Insofar as you can tell from the data we have, this would appear to be an effective thing to do."|Paul Aveyard, PhD FRCP FRCGP FFPH PROFESSOR OF BEHAVIOURAL MEDICINE Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences]]
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===Dr Peter Miller===
===Clive Bates===
*Chief Executive of Leicestershire Partnership Trust
[https://filtermag.org/vaping-arguments-health/ Quote Source] / [https://www.e-cigarette-summit.us.com/speaker/clive-bates/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates Follow on Twitter]
*[https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2017/07/25/how-one-mental-health-trust-in-leicestershire-is-using-e-cigarettes-as-a-tool-to-go-smokefree/ Quote Source]
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*“We understand that stopping smoking can cause discomfort, and have put in place a number of initiatives to support people to not smoke while on our premises, or ideally give up for good. This includes the provision of nicotine replacement therapy and, if required, products for vaping. Whilst we are not there yet, we are committed to continuing on this journey to be smokefree
[[file:England UK Clive Bates.png|center]]
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===Marcus Munafò, PhD===
===Emma V Beard===
*[https://twitter.com/MarcusMunafo Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/DrEVBeard Follow on Twitter]
Professor of Biological Psychology and MRC
<br>
Investigator
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
School of Psychological Science
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Dr Kevin Murphy===
===John Britton, MD===
*[https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn/status/1464750588441202688 Source of name and quote]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://www.festivalofpublichealth.co.uk/keynotespeakers/pastkeynotespeakers/professorjohnbritton/ Bio and Photo]
*[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/kevin-murphy/ Another source and photo]
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[[file:England UK John Britton, MD.png|center|alt=John Britton, MD, Director UK Center For Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Professor of Epidemiology University Nottingham "Health policy should be driven by science, not prejudice or dogma. Vaping has already provided an effective gateway out of smoking for millions of people, unequivocally benefiting individual smokers, public health and wider society." |John Britton, MD, Director UK Center For Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Professor of Epidemiology University Nottingham ]]
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===John Newton, FRCP FFPH FRSPH===
===Leonie Brose, PhD===
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://www.ecehh.org/people/john-newton/ Bio]
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1579755828005212160 Quote abd Graphic Source] / [https://www.addiction-ssa.org/author/dr-leonie-brose/ Bio]
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[[file:England UK John Newton 2.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Leonie Brose PhD.png|center]]
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===Caitlin Notley, PhD===
===George Butterworth, BSc===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/caitlin-notley Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/AddictionUea Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-butterworth-10a19a78/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/e-cigarettes-can-help-people-to-quit-tobacco-new-study-finds-1.4053055 Quote Source]
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[[file:England UK George Butterworth, BSc.png|center|alt=George Butterworth, BSc Policy Manager Cancer Research UK 2014-2022: "...vaping is less harmful than smoking tobacco and can help people to stop smoking..."|George Butterworth, BSc Policy Manager Cancer Research UK 2014-2022]]
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[[file:England UK Caitlin Notley, PhD.png|center]]
 
===Carolina Garcia Canton===
*Disclosure: BAT
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===David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FSB, FMedSci===
===Hazel Cheeseman, MSc===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.nutt Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/ProfDavidNutt Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/HazelCheeseman Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/HazelCheeseman Photo] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hazel-cheeseman-45ab385b/?originalSubdomain=uk Bio] / [https://twitter.com/HazelCheeseman/status/1598689924785446913 Quote Source]
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[[file:England UK David Nutt.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Hazel Cheeseman, MSc.png|center|alt=Hazel Cheeseman, MSc. Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH UK): "Wait. What? I'm almost speechless. Parents [in Australia] seek to replace vaping with the more addictive much much more lethal alternative... smoking. How does this level of misunderstanding come about and how can we guard against it here in the UK?"|Hazel Cheeseman, MSc. Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH UK).]]
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===Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan===
===Sharon Cox, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/Doctor_Sud Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=SACOX23 Bio] / [https://twitter.com/Sharon_ACox/status/1545102475648196608 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Sharon_ACox Follow on Twitter]
[https://snusforumet.se/en/nicotine-misconceptions-sudhanshu-patwardhan-on-causes-consequences-and-potential-cures/ Snus Forum Interview]
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[[file:England UK Sharon Cox PhD.png|center]]
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===David Crane PhD===
===Debbie Robson, PhD===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20230528043902/https://twitter.com/dhc23/status/1339922753781194753 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/dhc23 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ann-mcneill Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/debbierobson Bio]  
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[[file:UK Debbie Robson 2.png|center]]
[[file:England UK David Crane PhD.png|center|alt=David Crane PhD: "There is no good evidence that vaping makes addicts out of people who would not otherwise become so but substantial good evidence that it helps smokers quit. The public health benefits for which are huge."|David Crane PhD]]
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===Louise Ross===
===Lynne Dawkins, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/louise_ross Source: Quote, Bio] / [https://www.sovape.fr/louise-ross/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/grannylouisa Follow on Twitter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people/people-finder/dr-lynne-dawkins Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/LynneDawkins Follow on Twitter]
*Disclosures: I have provided consultancy for the pharmaceutical industry relating to the development of smoking cessation products. I have no conflicts with respect to the tobacco or e-cigarette industry.
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[[file:England UK Louise Ross.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Lynne Dawkings PhD.png|center]]
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===Dr Kathryn Scott===
===Martin Dockrell===
*[https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19754957.yorkshire-cancer-research-welcomes-inclusion-vaping-guidelines/ Quote Source]
*[https://twitter.com/SwitchFinder Follow on Twitter] / [https://oyston.com/blog/communicating-about-vaping/ Photo and Quote Source]
*chief executive at Yorkshire Cancer Research
*"Easy and reliable access to vaping products will give more people in Yorkshire the best chance of quitting for good.”
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[[file:England Martin Dockrell.png|center]]
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===Lion Shahab, PhD CPsychol AFBPsS===
===Katherine "Katie" East, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=LSHAH80 Bio] / [https://www.ecigclick.co.uk/public-health-england-video-proves-vaping-safer-than-smoking/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/LionShahab Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1580895275635290112 Quote and Graphic] / [https://twitter.com/Katie1East Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.katherineeast.co.uk/ Bio]
*Disclosures: LS has received a research grant, honoraria for talks, consultancy and travel expenses to attend meetings and workshops from pharmaceutical companies that make smoking cessation products (Pfizer; Johnson & Johnson). He has never received any funding or other monetary benefits from the tobacco or e-cigarette industry.
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[[file:UK Lion Shahab PhD.png|center]]  
[[file:England UK Katherine East PhD.png|center]]
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===Erikas Simonavičius, PhD===
===Dr Matthew Evison===
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1577654190301761536 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/erikas-simonavicius Bio]
*[https://twitter.com/MatthewEvison1 Follow on Twitter] / [https://mft.nhs.uk/wythenshawe/consultants/dr-matthew-evison/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/MatthewEvison1/status/1448297933464559622 Quote Source]
[[file:UK Erikas Simonavičius.png|center]]
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[[file:England UK Dr Matthew Evison .png|center]]
===Professor Gerry Stimson===
*[https://twitter.com/GerryStimson Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2023/02/vape-advocates-study.html Quote Source]
*In almost all areas of public health, affected communities are now seen as a vital part of the policymaking process and the same recognition is long overdue in this field. Policymakers need to hear the experiences of people who have switched away from smoking, and take note of how their decisions are likely to impact people’s lives.
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===Frances Thirlway, PhD, MSc===
===Jonathan Fell===
*[https://twitter.com/fthirlway Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/fthirlway/status/1166260406836445184 Quote Source] / [https://www.e-cigarette-summit.co.uk/speaker/dr-frances-thirlway/ Photo] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230118100853/https://www.york.ac.uk/igdc/people/francesthirlway/ Bio]
*[https://twitter.com/JonFell73 Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-fell-54065554/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.vapingpost.com/2021/06/25/the-8th-global-forum-on-nicotine-gfn21/ Quote Source]
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[[file:England UK Frances Thirlway PhD.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Jon Fell.png|center]]
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===Dr Russell Thorpe===
===Floe Foxon, BSc===
[https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/fylde-gp-promoting-vaping-to-help-smokers-quit-3475950 Quote source]
*[https://twitter.com/FloeFoxon Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/FloeFoxon/status/1448302299013582849 Quote Source] / [https://floefoxon.github.io/ Photo] / [https://www.pinneyassociates.com/team/floe-foxon/ Bio]
*(Disclosures - Pinney & Associates does consulting for the Pharmaceutical Industry and for JUUL )
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[[file:England UK Floe Foxon BSc.png|center]]
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===Suzi Gage===
*[https://twitter.com/soozaphone Follow on Twitter]
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===Robert West, PhD===
===Stuart Griffiths, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/robertjwest Follow on Twitter]
*[https://vaporvoice.net/2022/01/04/another-u-k-community-to-offer-free-vapes-to-smokers/ Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartpgriffiths/?originalSubdomain=uk Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/Stu_P_Griffiths Follow on Twitter]
Professor Emeritus in Health Psychology,
<br>
University College London
[[file:England UK Stuart Griffiths, PhD.png|center|alt=Stuart Griffiths, PhD, Director of Research, Services, and Policy, Yorkshire Cancer Research: "When it comes to helping people quit for good, being able to offer vaping products is essential. They are an incredibly effective aid in helping people give up cigarettes.”|Stuart Griffiths, PhD, Director of Research, Services, and Policy, Yorkshire Cancer Research]]
*2011-2012 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
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='''France'''=
===Peter Hajek, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20220121053415/https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/people/profiles/hajekpeter.html Bio and Photo]
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[[file:England UK Peter Hajek, PhD.png|center]]
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===David Halpern, PhD===
*[https://filtermag.org/uk-vaping-saves-lives/ Quote Source] / [https://www.bi.team/people/professor-david-halpern/ Bio] [https://twitter.com/DavidHalpernCEO Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/david-halpern Photo]
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[[file:England UK David Halpern PhD.png|center|alt=David Halpern, PhD, CEO - Behavioural Insights Team: "...we should deliberately seek to make e-cigs widely available, and to use regulation not to ban them but to improve their quality and reliability."|David Halpern, PhD, CEO - Behavioural Insights Team]]
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===Jamie Hartmann-Boyce===
*[https://twitter.com/jhb19 Follow on Twitter]
<br>


===Marion Adler, PhD===
===Dr Richard Holliday===
Smoking Cessation Specialist
[https://dentistry.co.uk/2022/08/22/vaping-and-oral-health-an-update-for-the-dental-team/ Photo and Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/DrRichHolliday Follow on Twitter]
Hôpital Antoine Béclère
Clamart
France
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Name Source - need to search for individual quote]
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===Philippe Arvers, MD, PhD===
===Benjamin Human===
*[https://twitter.com/addict38 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/thehuman94 Follow on Twitter]
Tobaccologist ans addictologist
[https://twitter.com/thehuman94/status/1464197074635964416 Source of name]
Université Grenoble Alpes
France
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg===
===Sarah Jackson, PhD, MSc===
*[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Dautzenberg Bio] / [https://www.europeanscientist.com/fr/sante/bertrand-dautzenberg-vape-sortie-tabac-industrie/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/PrDautzenberg Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-nicotine-vaping-in-england-an-evidence-update-as-published-by-the-office-for-health-improvement-and-disparities-ohid-and-authored-by-scientists-at-kcl/ Quote] / [https://twitter.com/vpasouthafrica/status/1194959067816615936 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/DrSarahEJackson Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:France Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Sarah Jackson PhD.png|center]]
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===Jacques Le Houezec, PhD===
===Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://2019.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/jacques-le-houezec/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/JLHamzer Follow on Twitter]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hbrc/tobacco/jarvism.html Bio and Photo]
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[[file:France Jacques Le Houezec, PhD.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD.png|center]]
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='''Germany'''=
===Mark Jenkinson MP===
 
*[https://twitter.com/markjenkinsonmp Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1743798/quitting-smoking-alternative-products-vaping-comment Quote Source]
 
===Peter Liese MEP===
*[https://twitter.com/peterliese Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1418253007951695876 Tweet about Peter]
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<br>
<br>
===Alexander K. Nussbaum, PhD===
 
*[https://twitter.com/NussbaumDr Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/draknussbaum/ Bio]
===Patricia Kovacevic, JD===
*[https://twitter.com/patriciakova Follow on Twitter] / [https://tobaccoreporter.com/2022/04/05/women-in-tobacco-to-meet-in-paris/ Photo] / [https://regulationstrategy.com/patricia-kovacevic/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/patriciakova/status/1610989194410692608 Quote Source]
*Disclosures: General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Nicopure Labs, 2015 - 2020, General Counsel to Lorrilard and PMI 2004 - 2015
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[[file:UK US Patricia Kovacevic, JD.png|center]]
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===Dr Ingo Schröder===
===Sir Norman Lamb===
*[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/%5D%5D Source of name]
[https://twitter.com/commonsstc/status/1030424754463952896 Graphics Source] / [https://twitter.com/normanlamb Follow on Twitter]
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[[File:England UK Norman Lamb.png|center|]]
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===Dr. F. Artur Schroers===
===Rosemary Leonard, MBE, MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, DRCOG===
*[https://twitter.com/Tobaccoharmred1/status/1599754395943477250 Source of Graphic]
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://patient.info/authors/dr-rosemary-leonard-mbe Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrRosemaryL Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:Germany Dr. F. Artur Schroers.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Rosemary Leonard.png|center]]
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===Frank Sitta===
===Nicola Lindson===
*[https://twitter.com/franksitta Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/DrNLindson Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/LandlMichael/status/1427182285351264257 tweet about Frank]
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<br>
===PROFESSOR HEINO STÖVER===
*[https://twitter.com/HeinoStoever Follow on Twitter] / [https://iotodeducation.com/people/professor-heino-stover/ Bio] / [https://www.ansa.it/pressrelease/english/2021/02/03/expert-for-addiction-studies-prof.-dr.-heino-stoever-criticizes-the-new-eu-beating-cancer-plan-ta_e7d3a263-dd4d-484f-b927-4ba3bd5563e2.html Quote Source]
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[[file:Germany HEINO STÖVER, PhD.png|center]]
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===Prof. Dirk Ziebolz===
*[[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/ Source of name]]
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='''Greece'''=
===Martin Machray===
*[https://twitter.com/LTA_London/status/1670722400239992833 Source]


===Professor Stefan Marciniak===
*[https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-stefan-marciniak Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/Prof_Marciniak Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/Prof_Marciniak/status/1693190318789681554 Quote Source]
"Current evidence supports vaping as a safer option than smoking, so a switch is better than not switching."


===Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH===
===Olivia M Maynard, PhD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://dmlab.edu.gr/team/konstantinos-farsalinos/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/FarsalinosK Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/OliviaMaynard17 Follow on Twitter]
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science
Bristol Population Health Science Institute
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Bristol,
United Kingdom
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:Greece Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH.png|center]]
 
===Professor Elaine McColl===
*[https://dentistry.co.uk/2022/08/22/vaping-and-oral-health-an-update-for-the-dental-team/ Photo and Quote Source]
 
===Dr Andy McEwen===
*National Centre of Smoking Cessation and Training, Dorchester, UK
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<br>
='''Guatemala'''=


 
===Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH===
===Dr Erick Estrada===
*[https://twitter.com/jimmcmanusph Follow on Twitter] / [https://jimmcmanus.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/how-and-why-i-changed-my-mind-on-e-cigarettes/ Quote Source] / [https://www.adph.org.uk/who-we-are/our-board-and-council/ Photo] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcmanus2/ Bio]
Family doctor and surgeon. Focused on preventive medicine
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:England UK Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH.png|center|alt=Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH President, The Association of Directors of Public Health (UK): "But it seems to me that we have enough of an accumulation of evidence that e-cigarettes are so much safer than tobacco cigarettes, even if we only discuss the levels of emissions of chemicals, that not working with e-cigarettes is to expose people to potentially avoidable harm, and that this is unethical. I feel ethically compelled to find a way of working with e-cigarettes as a public health tool. And the fact that some public health debate has made people – wrongly as the consensus statement says – feel e-cigarettes may even be more harmful than tobacco is something we ought to find shocking and chilling."|Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH President, The Association of Directors of Public Health (UK)]]
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='''Iceland'''=
===Ann McNeill, PhD===
 
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1577297018417987585 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ann-mcneill Bio]
 
===G. Karl Snæbjörnsson, MD===
*[https://twitter.com/KalliSnae Follow on Twitter] / [https://2019.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/g-karl-snaebjornsson/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/KalliSnae/status/1306721888551477249 Quote Source]
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[[file:Iceland G. Karl Snæbjörnsson, MD.png|center]]
[[file:UK - Ann McNeill.png|center]]
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='''India'''=
===Dr Peter Miller===
 
*Chief Executive of Leicestershire Partnership Trust
 
*[https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2017/07/25/how-one-mental-health-trust-in-leicestershire-is-using-e-cigarettes-as-a-tool-to-go-smokefree/ Quote Source]
===Dr Nimesh Desai===
*“We understand that stopping smoking can cause discomfort, and have put in place a number of initiatives to support people to not smoke while on our premises, or ideally give up for good. This includes the provision of nicotine replacement therapy and, if required, products for vaping. Whilst we are not there yet, we are committed to continuing on this journey to be smokefree
*[http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=139015&sid=1 Quote Source] / [https://www.ihwcouncil.org/profile/dr-nimesh-desai/ Bio and Photo]
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[[file:India Dr Nimesh Desai.png|center]]
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===Aparajeet Kar, MD===
===Marcus Munafò, PhD===
Consultant Pulmonology and Critical Care
*[https://twitter.com/MarcusMunafo Follow on Twitter]
Sir H.N Reliance Foundation Hospital
Professor of Biological Psychology and MRC
Mumbai
Investigator
India
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
School of Psychological Science
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Dr Kiran Melkote, MBBS, MS===
===Dr Kevin Murphy===
*[https://twitter.com/Dr_KiranMelkote Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/Dr_KiranMelkote/status/1399407835616710667 Quote Source] / [https://www.fortishealthcare.com/doctor/dr-kiran-harsha-melkote-2886 Photo]
*[https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn/status/1464750588441202688 Source of name and quote]
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*[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/kevin-murphy/ Another source and photo]
[[file:India Dr Kiran Melkote, MBBS, MS.png|center]]
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===Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD===
===John Newton, FRCP FFPH FRSPH===
*[https://twitter.com/rohseq Follow on Twitter]
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://www.ecehh.org/people/john-newton/ Bio]
Professor of Internal Medicine
<br>
Specialist in Non-Invasive Cardiology, Diabetes,
[[file:England UK John Newton 2.png|center]]
Endocrinology and Obesity Management
Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre
Mumbai
India
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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='''Ireland'''=
===Caitlin Notley, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/caitlin-notley Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/AddictionUea Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:England UK Caitlin Notley, PhD.png|center]]
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===David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FSB, FMedSci===
===Dr Garrett McGovern===  
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.nutt Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/ProfDavidNutt Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/AddictionsPMC Follow on Twitter] / [http://prioritymedicalclinic.ie/team.html Bio] [https://web.archive.org/web/20210418111532/https://www.medicalindependent.ie/to-vape-or-not-to-vape/ Quote] / [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-cigarette-summit.co.uk%2Fkey-topics%2F&psig=AOvVaw1U78oxvoiwPoQHqLlqhXn6&ust=1674301605999000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCPjYvdWJ1vwCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE Photo]
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[[file:Ireland Dr Garrett McGovern2.png|center]]
[[file:England UK David Nutt.png|center]]
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='''Italy'''=
===Dr Kirstie Soar===
*Centre of Addictive Behaviours Research, London South Bank University, UK
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===Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan===
*[https://twitter.com/Doctor_Sud Follow on Twitter]
[https://snusforumet.se/en/nicotine-misconceptions-sudhanshu-patwardhan-on-causes-consequences-and-potential-cures/ Snus Forum Interview]
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===Pietro Fiocchi===
===Debbie Robson, PhD===
[https://twitter.com/FiocchiPietro Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/LandlMichael/status/1427182281429590018 Tweet with info] / [https://www.sigmagazine.it/2021/03/fiocchi-anpvu/ Quote:]
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1579484769506988032 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/debbierobson Bio]  
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[[file:Italy Pietro Fiocchi.png|center]]
[[file:UK Debbie Robson 2.png|center]]
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===Riccardo Polosa===
===Louise Ross===
*[https://twitter.com/RiccardoPolosa Follow on Twitter] / [https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [http://www.medclin.unict.it/faculty/riccardo.polosa Bio]
*[https://clivebates.com/louise_ross Source: Quote, Bio] / [https://www.sovape.fr/louise-ross/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/grannylouisa Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:Italy Dr Riccardo Polosa.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Louise Ross.png|center]]
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===Umberto Tirelli MD===
===Dr Kathryn Scott===
Professor
*[https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19754957.yorkshire-cancer-research-welcomes-inclusion-vaping-guidelines/ Quote Source]
Director, Cancer Center Clinica Mede Sacile
*chief executive at Yorkshire Cancer Research
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*"Easy and reliable access to vaping products will give more people in Yorkshire the best chance of quitting for good.”
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='''Japan'''=
===Lion Shahab, PhD CPsychol AFBPsS===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=LSHAH80 Bio] / [https://www.ecigclick.co.uk/public-health-england-video-proves-vaping-safer-than-smoking/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/LionShahab Follow on Twitter]
*Disclosures: LS has received a research grant, honoraria for talks, consultancy and travel expenses to attend meetings and workshops from pharmaceutical companies that make smoking cessation products (Pfizer; Johnson & Johnson). He has never received any funding or other monetary benefits from the tobacco or e-cigarette industry.
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[[file:UK Lion Shahab PhD.png|center]]
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===Erikas Simonavičius, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1577654190301761536 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/erikas-simonavicius Bio]
[[file:UK Erikas Simonavičius.png|center]]
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===Naohito Yamaguchi, MD===
===Professor Gerry Stimson===
Chief of Research Division, Saiseikai Research
*[https://twitter.com/GerryStimson Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2023/02/vape-advocates-study.html Quote Source]
Institute of Health Care and Welfare
*In almost all areas of public health, affected communities are now seen as a vital part of the policymaking process and the same recognition is long overdue in this field. Policymakers need to hear the experiences of people who have switched away from smoking, and take note of how their decisions are likely to impact people’s lives.
Former Professor of Public Health,
School of Medicine,
Tokyo Women's Medical University
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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<br>
='''Kenya'''=


===Joseph Magero, BBA===
===Harry Tattan-Birch, MSc===
*[https://twitter.com/Josephmagero Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.athrf.org/speaker/joseph-magero/ Photo and Bio] / [https://josephmagero.medium.com/access-to-safer-nicotine-products-in-low-and-middle-income-countries-more-vital-than-ever-d220576c1c63 Quote Source]
*[https://twitter.com/TattanBirch Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/TattanBirch/status/1182745428867067904 Quote Source] /  
<br>
[https://www.addiction-ssa.org/author/mr-harry-tattan-birch/ Bio]
[[file:Kenya Joseph Magero BBA.png|center]]
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='''Lithuania'''=
===Eve Taylor===
 
[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1580215037750169601 Quote Source]
 
===Morgana Danielė===
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1428353290228559884 video on twitter]
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='''Malaysia'''=
===Frances Thirlway, PhD, MSc===
 
*[https://twitter.com/fthirlway Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/fthirlway/status/1166260406836445184 Quote Source] / [https://www.e-cigarette-summit.co.uk/speaker/dr-frances-thirlway/ Photo] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230118100853/https://www.york.ac.uk/igdc/people/francesthirlway/ Bio]
 
===Dr Steven Chow===
[http://focusmalaysia.my/consider-tobacco-harm-reduction-method-for-smoking-cessation/ Quote Source] / [https://www.tdmt.org/2018/Program/SpeakerData.php?AgendaSpeakersSID=345 Bio and Photo]
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[[file:Malaysia Dr Steven Chow.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Frances Thirlway PhD.png|center]]
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===Dr Arifin Fii===
===Dr Russell Thorpe===
*[https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2021/09/29/crucial-step-in-tobacco-harm-reduction Source]
[https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/fylde-gp-promoting-vaping-to-help-smokers-quit-3475950 Quote source]
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<br>


===Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD===
===Robert West, PhD===
Professor of Occupational Safety and
*[https://twitter.com/robertjwest Follow on Twitter]
Health/Ergonomics
Professor Emeritus in Health Psychology,
Department of Environmental and Occupational
University College London
Health
*2011-2012 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
University Putra
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
Malaysia
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Name source - need to find individual quote]
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='''Mexico'''=
='''France'''=


 
===Marion Adler, PhD===
===Ldo. Edgar Caballero===
Smoking Cessation Specialist
Behavioral psychologist
Hôpital Antoine Béclère
*[https://twitter.com/edd_edgar Follow on Twitter]
Clamart
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
France
<br>
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Name Source - need to search for individual quote]
<br>
<br>


===Dr. Jessica Esquivel Chahin===
===Philippe Arvers, MD, PhD===
Doctor at the Institute of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery at Hospital Ángeles Lomas. Expert in diagnosis and management of covid-19 patients. Health sciences teacher.
*[https://twitter.com/addict38 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
Tobaccologist ans addictologist
Université Grenoble Alpes
France
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Élisabeth Borne, Prime Minister===
*[https://twitter.com/vapeindia/status/1535846093161897984 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Elisabeth_Borne Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Dr. Jose Alejandro Chavez===
Clinical Cardiologist. Member of the Medical Society of the General Hospital of Mexico. Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. USA. Member of the Mexican Society of Cardiology.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg===
*[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Dautzenberg Bio] / [https://www.europeanscientist.com/fr/sante/bertrand-dautzenberg-vape-sortie-tabac-industrie/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/PrDautzenberg Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Christian Heinrich Henonin MD===
[[file:France Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg.png|center]]
MIPH International Public Health.
Medical professor, researcher and health
consultant
Mexico
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Julien Didry===
*[https://oneshotmedia.fr/2022/11/14/julien-didry-ce-politique-engage-qui-na-pas-peur-de-dire-la-verite-sur-la-vape/ Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
===Dr. José Manuel Mier===
*[https://twitter.com/Doctor_Mier Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Jacques Le Houezec, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://2019.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/jacques-le-houezec/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/JLHamzer Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Luz Odette Villegas Pichardo. MD===
[[file:France Jacques Le Houezec, PhD.png|center]]
Internal Medicine. South Medical Hospital. Metropolitan Angeles Hospital.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
<br>


===Roberto A Sussman, PhD===
===Olivier Véran===
*[https://twitter.com/RobertoSussman Follow on Twitter] / [https://thevapingtoday.com/la-guerra-contra-el-vapeo-de-bloomberg-se-expande-a-america-latina-y-mas-alla/ Quote - Spanish] [https://thevapingtoday-com.translate.goog/la-guerra-contra-el-vapeo-de-bloomberg-se-expande-a-america-latina-y-mas-alla/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Quote - English] / [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2104592066292094 Photo Source]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190926041146/https://www.lejdd.fr/Societe/Sante/olivier-veran-interdire-le-vapotage-naurait-aucun-sens-3920559 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/olivierveran Follow on Twitter]
*Representing Pro-Vapeo Mexico
<br>
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[[file:Mexico Roberto A Sussman, PhD.png|center]]
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='''Morocco'''=
='''Germany'''=




===Imane Kendili MD===
===Peter Liese MEP===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/imane-kendili-9a303893/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/global-tobacco-control-hugely-outdated-dr-kgosi-letlape/ Quote Source]
*[https://twitter.com/peterliese Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1418253007951695876 Tweet about Peter]
<br>
<br>
<br>
[[file:Morocco Imane Kendili MD.png|center]]
===Alexander K. Nussbaum, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/NussbaumDr Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/draknussbaum/ Bio]
<br>
<br>
='''New Zealand'''=
===PM Jacinda Ardern===
<br>
<br>


 
===Dr Ingo Schröder===
===Robert Beaglehole, MD, DSc===
*[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/%5D%5D Source of name]
===Ruth Bonita, MPH, PhD, MD (hon)===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/bio-sketch/bonita-ruth/ Ruth: Bio and Photo] / [https://ncdalliance.org/robert-beaglehole-0 Robert: Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/iPHC2 Follow Ruth on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/RBeaglehole Follow Robert on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Ruth and Robert.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Julian Buchanan, CPA, DSW, MA, PhD===
===Dr. F. Artur Schroers===
*[https://twitter.com/julianbuchanan Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/julianbuchanan/status/1398965857573736453 Quote Source] / [https://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/contact/ Bio] / [https://victoria.academia.edu/JulianBuchanan Photo]
*[https://twitter.com/Tobaccoharmred1/status/1599754395943477250 Source of Graphic]
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Julian Buchanan PhD.png|center]]
[[file:Germany Dr. F. Artur Schroers.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Marewa Glover, PhD===
===Frank Sitta===
*[https://twitter.com/MarewaGlover Follow on Twitter] / [https://tobaccoreporter.com/2020/10/23/marewa-glover/ Photo] / [https://coreiss.com/about Bio] / [https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=79287553-37e3-4331-805a-e3be2f787e54&subId=695520 Quote]
*[https://twitter.com/franksitta Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/LandlMichael/status/1427182285351264257 tweet about Frank]
<br>
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Marewa Glover, PhD.png|center]]
===PROFESSOR HEINO STÖVER===
*[https://twitter.com/HeinoStoever Follow on Twitter] / [https://iotodeducation.com/people/professor-heino-stover/ Bio] / [https://www.ansa.it/pressrelease/english/2021/02/03/expert-for-addiction-studies-prof.-dr.-heino-stoever-criticizes-the-new-eu-beating-cancer-plan-ta_e7d3a263-dd4d-484f-b927-4ba3bd5563e2.html Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
 
[[file:Germany HEINO STÖVER, PhD.png|center]]
===Deborah Hart LLB===
*[https://www.facebook.com/LegaliseVaping/posts/ash-nz-director-deborah-hart-we-know-that-vaping-causes-less-harm-than-smoking-t/577401752811568/ Source: Quote]  
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Deborah Hart.png|center]]
===Prof. Dirk Ziebolz===
*[[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/ Source of name]]
<br>
<br>
===Yolande Jeffares===
*[https://twitter.com/ChuggaLuggs Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>


===George Laking, MD, PhD===
='''Greece'''=
*[https://twitter.com/glaking Follow on Twitter]
Chair, End Smoking New Zealand
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>


===Dr Murray Laugesen===
*[https://twitter.com/DrQso Follow on Twitter]
*“…inhaling mist from the e-cigarette is rated several orders of magnitude (100 to 1000 times) less dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes.”
*[https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2013/12/electronic-cigarette-quotes.html Quote Source]
<br>


===Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, BSc Pharm, B. Chem===
===Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH===
*[https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.spreaker.com/user/13542176/podcast3-cc Bio] / [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAeeSqndTeY Photo] / [https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn/status/1340052249645522944 Quote Source]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://dmlab.edu.gr/team/konstantinos-farsalinos/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/FarsalinosK Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, BSc.png|center]]
[[file:Greece Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
='''Guatemala'''=


===Natalie Walker, PhD===
 
*[https://twitter.com/nwalker25021458 Follow on Twitter]
===Dr Erick Estrada===
Associate Professor of Population Health and
Family doctor and surgeon. Focused on preventive medicine
Director of the Centre for Addiction Research,
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
National Institute for Health Innovation,
<br>
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences,
University of Auckland
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Nigeria'''=
='''Iceland'''=




===[https://www.linkedin.com/in/adebisi-yusuff-adebayo/ ADEBISI Yusuff Adebayo]===
===G. Karl Snæbjörnsson, MD===
*(CASA Board - Africa) Nigeria/UK
*[https://twitter.com/KalliSnae Follow on Twitter] / [https://2019.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/g-karl-snaebjornsson/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/KalliSnae/status/1306721888551477249 Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Iceland G. Karl Snæbjörnsson, MD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Aishat Alaran===
='''India'''=
*Follow on Twitter #WomenInTHR
 
MPhil Candidate at University of Cambridge. Commonwealth Shared Cambridge Trust Scholar. Public Health Researcher
 
===Dr Nimesh Desai===
*[http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=139015&sid=1 Quote Source] / [https://www.ihwcouncil.org/profile/dr-nimesh-desai/ Bio and Photo]
<br>
<br>
[[file:India Dr Nimesh Desai.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


='''Norway'''=
===Aparajeet Kar, MD===
Consultant Pulmonology and Critical Care
Sir H.N Reliance Foundation Hospital
Mumbai
India
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>


===Dr Kiran Melkote, MBBS, MS===
*[https://twitter.com/Dr_KiranMelkote Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/Dr_KiranMelkote/status/1399407835616710667 Quote Source] / [https://www.fortishealthcare.com/doctor/dr-kiran-harsha-melkote-2886 Photo]
<br>
[[file:India Dr Kiran Melkote, MBBS, MS.png|center]]
<br>


===Karl E Lund, PhD===
===Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source Quote] / [https://www.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/karl-e-lund/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/LundKarl Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/rohseq Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/rohseq/status/1055329890130636800 Quote Source] / [https://revivalclinic.in/about-me Photo and Bio]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Norway Karl Lund PHD.png|center]]
[[file:India Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD.png|center|alt=Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD  "Medical professionals need to realise that switching patients who smoke to a healthier alternative like Vaping is the next best thing to smoke cessation, which by itself is a very difficult task. Regulate not Ban."|Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD]]
<br>
<br>


='''Pakistan'''=
='''Ireland'''=




===Dr Ashar Ahmed===
===Dr Garrett McGovern===  
[https://nation.com.pk/21-Nov-2021/banning-is-not-always-the-answer Source for name and quote]
*[https://twitter.com/AddictionsPMC Follow on Twitter] / [http://prioritymedicalclinic.ie/team.html Bio] [https://web.archive.org/web/20210418111532/https://www.medicalindependent.ie/to-vape-or-not-to-vape/ Quote] / [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-cigarette-summit.co.uk%2Fkey-topics%2F&psig=AOvVaw1U78oxvoiwPoQHqLlqhXn6&ust=1674301605999000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCPjYvdWJ1vwCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE Photo]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Ireland Dr Garrett McGovern2.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
='''Peru'''=


='''Italy'''=




===Dr Omar Ghiglione===
===Pietro Fiocchi===
Venezuela, Peru
[https://twitter.com/FiocchiPietro Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/LandlMichael/status/1427182281429590018 Tweet with info] / [https://www.sigmagazine.it/2021/03/fiocchi-anpvu/ Quote:]
Peripheral Vascular Surgeon.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Italy Pietro Fiocchi.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


='''Philippines'''=
===Riccardo Polosa===
 
*[https://twitter.com/RiccardoPolosa Follow on Twitter] / [https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [http://www.medclin.unict.it/faculty/riccardo.polosa Bio]
 
===Dr. Rafael R. Castillo===
*[https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/06/24/heart-expert-says-filipino-smokers-deserve-less-harmful-alternatives/ Source]
<br>
<br>
[[File:Philippines Dr Rafael R Castillo.png|center]]
[[file:Italy Dr Riccardo Polosa.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Dr. Fernando Fernandez===
===Umberto Tirelli MD===
[https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/02/10/news/national/expert-sounds-alarm-on-oral-cancer/681916/ Quote Source] / [https://www.thedentallounge.com.ph/our-doctors Bio] / [https://pcoms.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/51st-anniversary/ Photo]
Professor
<br>
Director, Cancer Center Clinica Mede Sacile
[[File:Philippine Dr. Fernando Fernandez 2.png|center]]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===Arleen R. Reyes, DMD, ICD, ICCDE===
='''Japan'''=
Past President, Philippine Dental Association
 
Chairman, Commission on Dental Education
 
Asia -Pacific Dental Federation
===Naohito Yamaguchi, MD===
Philippines
Chief of Research Division, Saiseikai Research
Institute of Health Care and Welfare
Former Professor of Public Health,
School of Medicine,
Tokyo Women's Medical University
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
='''Kenya'''=


===Ron Christian G. Sison, MLS(ASCPi), MPH===
===Joseph Magero, BBA===
Assistant Professor
*[https://twitter.com/Josephmagero Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.athrf.org/speaker/joseph-magero/ Photo and Bio] / [https://josephmagero.medium.com/access-to-safer-nicotine-products-in-low-and-middle-income-countries-more-vital-than-ever-d220576c1c63 Quote Source]
Lead Convenor
<br>
Harm Reduction Alliance of the Philippines
[[file:Kenya Joseph Magero BBA.png|center]]
Manila
Philippines
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Poland'''=
='''Lithuania'''=




===Andrzej Sobczak, PhD===
===Morgana Danielė===
Professor
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1428353290228559884 video on twitter]
Head of Department of General and Inorganic
Chemistry
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec
Medical University of Silesia
Katowice
Poland
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
='''Romania'''=


 
='''Malaysia'''=
===Mihaela Răescu Phd===
*[https://twitter.com/DRaescu Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.stomaeduj.com/wp-content/uploads/CV-Mihaela-RAESCU.pdf Photo and Bio] / [https://thrsp.net/meet-our-scholars/mihaela-raescu/ Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:Romania Mihaela Răescu Phd.png|center]]
<br>
 
='''Scotland'''=




===Prof Linda Bauld, OBE===
===Dr Steven Chow===
*[https://twitter.com/LindaBauld Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/linda-bauld Bio] / [https://edinburghbioquarter.com/public-health-professor-linda-bauld-awarded-obe/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/DrBalsamAhmad/status/1468628792130297856 Quote 1] / [https://twitter.com/LindaBauld/status/1202709755971682304 Quote 2]
[http://focusmalaysia.my/consider-tobacco-harm-reduction-method-for-smoking-cessation/ Quote Source] / [https://www.tdmt.org/2018/Program/SpeakerData.php?AgendaSpeakersSID=345 Bio and Photo]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Scotland Linda Bauld PhD.png|center]]
[[file:Malaysia Dr Steven Chow.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===[https://www.thevapingtoday.com/dr-ehsan-latif-who-and-fctc-secretariat-cannot-sustain-their-current-position/ Dr. Ehsan Latif]===
===Dr Arifin Fii===
*[https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2021/09/29/crucial-step-in-tobacco-harm-reduction Source]
<br>
<br>


='''South Africa'''=
===Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD===
Professor of Occupational Safety and
Health/Ergonomics
Department of Environmental and Occupational
Health
University Putra
Malaysia
Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Name source - need to find individual quote]
<br>
 
='''Mexico'''=




===Dr Kgosi Letlape===
===Ldo. Edgar Caballero===
*[https://www.infocusthr.org/kgosi-letlape Bio] / [https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/global-tobacco-control-hugely-outdated-dr-kgosi-letlape/ Photo and Quote]
Behavioral psychologist
*[https://twitter.com/edd_edgar Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[File:South Africa Dr. Kgosi Letlape2.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Solomon Rataemane===
===Dr. Jessica Esquivel Chahin===
*[https://twitter.com/srataema Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.scohre.org/ambassadors/south-africa/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/No_Smoke_Summit/status/1572985285247660034 Quote Source]
Doctor at the Institute of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery at Hospital Ángeles Lomas. Expert in diagnosis and management of covid-19 patients. Health sciences teacher.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[File:South Africa Solomon Rataemane.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Dr. Jose Alejandro Chavez===
='''South Korea'''=
Clinical Cardiologist. Member of the Medical Society of the General Hospital of Mexico. Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. USA. Member of the Mexican Society of Cardiology.
 
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
 
===Young-bum Park, PhD===
Professor
Department of Economics
Hansung University
South Korea
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
='''Spain'''=
===Manuel Linares Abad, PhD===
*Professor.
*Nurse specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
*Former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
*University of Jaen, Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Christian Heinrich Henonin MD===
MIPH International Public Health.
Medical professor, researcher and health
consultant
Mexico
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===José Mª García Basterrechea, MD===
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Murcia
Former head, Addiction and Dual Pathology Unit
Reina Sofía Hospital. Spain.
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Dr. José Manuel Mier===
*[https://twitter.com/Doctor_Mier Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Fernando Fernández Bueno, MD===
Oncological surgeon at the Hospital Central de la
Defensa Gómez Ulla
Professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares
Madrid
Spain
*[https://twitter.com/fernandezbueno Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.vozpopuli.com/sanidad/cigarrillos-electronicos-fumar.html Quote Source]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Luz Odette Villegas Pichardo. MD===
Internal Medicine. South Medical Hospital. Metropolitan Angeles Hospital.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Carmen Escrig, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/EscrigCarmen Follow on Twitter] / [https://vaporyciencia.com/acerca-de/ Bio] / [https://nicotinepolicy.net/blogs/guest-blogs/38-escrig-carmen/119-move-campaign Quote Source]
<br>
[[File:Spain Carmen Escrig 2.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Miguel de la Guardia PhD===
 
Professor of Analytical Cemistry
===Roberto A Sussman, PhD===
University of Valencia
*[https://twitter.com/RobertoSussman Follow on Twitter] / [https://thevapingtoday.com/la-guerra-contra-el-vapeo-de-bloomberg-se-expande-a-america-latina-y-mas-alla/ Quote - Spanish] [https://thevapingtoday-com.translate.goog/la-guerra-contra-el-vapeo-de-bloomberg-se-expande-a-america-latina-y-mas-alla/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Quote - English] / [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2104592066292094 Photo Source]
Spain
*Representing Pro-Vapeo Mexico
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Mexico Roberto A Sussman, PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Maria del Mar Sangüesa Jareño, MD===
 
Intensive Care Specialist
='''Morocco'''=
University Hospital of Ceuta,
 
Spain
 
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
===Imane Kendili MD===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/imane-kendili-9a303893/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/global-tobacco-control-hugely-outdated-dr-kgosi-letlape/ Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Morocco Imane Kendili MD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===José David García Muñiz, MD, PhD===
 
Clinical Pharmacology and Internal Medicine
='''Netherlands (Holland)'''=
Clinical Trials Coordinator, Principal Investigator
 
University Hospital of Ceuta
='''New Zealand'''=
Spain
 
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
 
===PM Jacinda Ardern===
<br>
<br>
===Robert Beaglehole, MD, DSc===
[https://ncdalliance.org/robert-beaglehole-0 Robert: Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/RBeaglehole Follow Robert on Twitter]
*See Ruth Bonita
===Ruth Bonita, MPH, PhD, MD (hon)===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/bio-sketch/bonita-ruth/ Ruth: Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/iPHC2 Follow Ruth on Twitter]
[[file:NZ Ruth and Robert.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Jose Miguel Rodriguez (Gonzalez-Moro)===
 
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-miguel-rodriguez-gonzalez-moro-66b6a634/?originalSubdomain=es Photo and Bio] / [https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/enfermedad-mental-tabaquismo-alternativas-cigarrillo-pacientes-reduccion-dano.html Quote Source]
===Julian Buchanan, CPA, DSW, MA, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/julianbuchanan Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/julianbuchanan/status/1398965857573736453 Quote Source] / [https://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/contact/ Bio] / [https://victoria.academia.edu/JulianBuchanan Photo]
<br>
[[file:NZ Julian Buchanan PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Spain Jose Miguel Rodriguez (1).png|center]]
 
===Chris Bullen, PhD===
*[https://www.nihi.auckland.ac.nz/chris-bullen-0 Bio] / [https://www.athra.org.au/blog/2020/04/23/australian-and-new-zealand-medical-specialists-announce-support-for-vaping/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/DrChrisBullen Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Antonio Sierra, MD, PhD===
 
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public
===Marewa Glover, PhD===
Health at the University of La Laguna.
*[https://twitter.com/MarewaGlover Follow on Twitter] / [https://tobaccoreporter.com/2020/10/23/marewa-glover/ Photo] / [https://coreiss.com/about Bio] / [https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=79287553-37e3-4331-805a-e3be2f787e54&subId=695520 Quote]
Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the
University of La Laguna
Former General Director of Public Health of the
Government of the Canary Islands
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Marewa Glover, PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Francisco Garcia Sierra, MD.===
 
Head of the Nephrology Service
===Deborah Hart LLB===
University Hospital of Ceuta
*[https://www.facebook.com/LegaliseVaping/posts/ash-nz-director-deborah-hart-we-know-that-vaping-causes-less-harm-than-smoking-t/577401752811568/ Source: Quote]  
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Deborah Hart.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Josep María Ramón Torrell, MD, PhD.===
 
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
===Yolande Jeffares===
University of Barcelona
*[https://twitter.com/ChuggaLuggs Follow on Twitter]
Head of Clinical Prevention Research Group
<br>
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institut
 
Head of Tobacco Prevention Service
===George Laking, MD, PhD===
Bellvitge Hospital
*[https://twitter.com/glaking Follow on Twitter] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230611083602/https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ashnz/pages/81/attachments/original/1570164398/Global_anti-smoking_experts_highlight_e-cigarette_opportunities-final.pdf?1570164398 Quote Source]
Barcelona, Spain
Chair, End Smoking New Zealand
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*“Smokefree tobacco and nicotine products can displace smoking. Smoking combustible tobacco has the greatest of health burdens, so the point here is to reduce this, regardless of whether a product contains or doesn’t contain tobacco."
<br>
<br>
===Dr Murray Laugesen===
*[https://twitter.com/DrQso Follow on Twitter]
*“…inhaling mist from the e-cigarette is rated several orders of magnitude (100 to 1000 times) less dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes.”
*[https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2013/12/electronic-cigarette-quotes.html Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
===Angel González Ureña, PhD===
 
Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry.
===Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, BSc Pharm, B. Chem===
Complutense University of Madrid
*[https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.spreaker.com/user/13542176/podcast3-cc Bio] / [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAeeSqndTeY Photo] / [https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn/status/1340052249645522944 Quote Source]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:NZ Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, BSc.png|center]]
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='''Singapore'''=
===Dr Penelope Truman===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
<br>


 
===Natalie Walker, PhD===
===Tan Kok Kuan, MD===
*[https://twitter.com/nwalker25021458 Follow on Twitter]
Medical Director
Associate Professor of Population Health and
Dr Tan Medical Center
Director of the Centre for Addiction Research,
Novena Medical Center
National Institute for Health Innovation,
Singapore
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences,
University of Auckland
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===Andrew John da Roza===
===Ben Youdan===
Psychotherapist - Addictions
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
Promises Health Care Pte. Ltd.
Singapore
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Sweden'''=
='''Nigeria'''=




===[https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2017-06-14_snus-appeal-letter.html Professor Tony Axéll]===
===[https://www.linkedin.com/in/adebisi-yusuff-adebayo/ ADEBISI Yusuff Adebayo]===  
*find quote
*[https://twitter.com/prof_rx/status/1695484999179399538 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/prof_rx Follow on Twitter]
*(CASA Board - Africa) Nigeria/UK
"Nicotine is not the primary cause of smoking-related diseases, including cancer."
<br>
<br>
===Curt Enzell===
*[https://snusochtandsticksmuseum.se/en/history/snus/the-inventor-of-the-portion-snus-interview-with-curt-enzell/ Quote Source]
<br>
<br>


===KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD===
===Aishat Alaran===
*[https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/tobacco-harm-reduction-the-stunning-success-of-snus-in-sweden/ Quote and some Bio Info] / [https://www.infocusthr.org/karl-fagerstrom Bio and Photo]
*Follow on Twitter #WomenInTHR
MPhil Candidate at University of Cambridge. Commonwealth Shared Cambridge Trust Scholar. Public Health Researcher
<br>
<br>
[[File:Sweden KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Anders Milton MD, PhD===
='''Norway'''=
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://sobrera.com/board-of-directors/ Bio and Photo]
 
 
===Karl E Lund, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source Quote] / [https://www.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/karl-e-lund/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/LundKarl Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[File:Sweden Anders Milton MD, PhD.png|center]]
[[file:Norway Karl Lund PHD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Lars Ramström PhD===
='''Pakistan'''=
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo]
 
 
===Dr Ashar Ahmed===
[https://nation.com.pk/21-Nov-2021/banning-is-not-always-the-answer Source for name and quote]
<br>
<br>
[[File:Sweden Lars Ramström PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
='''Peru'''=


='''Switzerland'''=




===Gizelle Baker===
===Dr Omar Ghiglione===
*[https://twitter.com/GizelleBaker Follow on Twitter]
Venezuela, Peru
Peripheral Vascular Surgeon.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>


===Jean-François Etter, PhD===
='''Philippines'''=
*[https://twitter.com/etterjf Follow on Twitter]
 
Professor of public health
 
Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine
===Dr. Rafael R. Castillo===
University of Geneva
*[https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/06/24/heart-expert-says-filipino-smokers-deserve-less-harmful-alternatives/ Source]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
[[File:Philippines Dr Rafael R Castillo.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Moira Gilchrist PhD===
===Dr. Fernando Fernandez===
*[https://twitter.com/DrGilchrist Follow on Twitter] / [https://brand-studio.fortune.com/philip-morris-international/driving-positive-change-through-science/?prx_t=FhgIAAAAAAoPEQA Quote Source 1] / [https://www.pmi.com/our-transformation/why-i-joined-pmi Quote Source 2] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/moira-gilchrist-pmi/ Bio] / [https://www.pmi.com/sustainability/innovating-for-better-products/product-health-impacts Photo]
[https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/02/10/news/national/expert-sounds-alarm-on-oral-cancer/681916/ Quote Source] / [https://www.thedentallounge.com.ph/our-doctors Bio] / [https://pcoms.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/51st-anniversary/ Photo]
*Disclosure: Experience in Pharmaceutical and Tobacco Industries.
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<br>
[[File:Switzerland Moira Gilchrist PhD.png|center]]
[[File:Philippine Dr. Fernando Fernandez 2.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Tikki Elka Pang, PhD===
===Arleen R. Reyes, DMD, ICD, ICCDE===
Former Director,
Past President, Philippine Dental Association
Research Policy & Cooperation,
Chairman, Commission on Dental Education
WHO, Geneva
Asia -Pacific Dental Federation
Switzerland
Philippines
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Tunisia'''=
===Ron Christian G. Sison, MLS(ASCPi), MPH===
 
Assistant Professor
 
Lead Convenor
===Fares Mili MD-CTTS- NCTTP===
Harm Reduction Alliance of the Philippines
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source:] / [https://www.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/fares-mili/ Bio and Photo]
Manila
<br>
Philippines
[[File:Tunisia Fares Mili MD CTTS NCTTP.png|center]]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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<br>


='''United Arab Emirates'''=
='''Poland'''=




===GOPAL BHATNAGAR, MD===
===Andrzej Sobczak, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/docgopal Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.rights4vapers.com/our-team/ Photo and Bio] / [https://cusjc.ca/healthycigs/health-matters/ Quote Source]
Professor
<br>
Head of Department of General and Inorganic
[[file:UAE GOPAL BHATNAGAR, MD2.png|center|alt=Gopal Bhatnagar, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi. Former Chief of Staff, Trillium Health Centre, Ontario, Canada. Vape Shop Owner: You just don’t victimize smokers twice. You don’t make something that’s hyper-addictive freely available to people and then you victimize them again by saying well you know there’s a technology that has the ability to help you get off this… but we’re going to restrict that.|Gopal Bhatnagar, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi. Former Chief of Staff, Trillium Health Centre, Ontario, Canada. Vape Shop Owner.]]
Chemistry
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec
Medical University of Silesia
Katowice
Poland
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
='''Romania'''=


===Cother Hajat, MBBS PhD FFPH FRCP===
===Mihaela Răescu Phd===
*[https://twitter.com/CotherHajat Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/DRaescu Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.stomaeduj.com/wp-content/uploads/CV-Mihaela-RAESCU.pdf Photo and Bio] / [https://thrsp.net/meet-our-scholars/mihaela-raescu/ Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Romania Mihaela Răescu Phd.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


='''United States'''=
='''Scotland'''=




===David Abrams PhD===
===Prof Linda Bauld, OBE===
*[https://knownicotine.com/ Photo: Documentary - You Don't Know Nicotine] / [https://watchibex.com/programs/ydkn?cid=1505479 Quote] / [https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/david-b-abrams Bio]
*[https://twitter.com/LindaBauld Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/linda-bauld Bio] / [https://edinburghbioquarter.com/public-health-professor-linda-bauld-awarded-obe/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/DrBalsamAhmad/status/1468628792130297856 Quote 1] / [https://twitter.com/LindaBauld/status/1202709755971682304 Quote 2]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US David Abrams.png|center|alt=David Abrams, PhD, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health: "E-cigarettes are substantially less harmful than burning toxic tobacco. They can help some people who have been unable to quit to switch and save their lives. The science in the last 2-3 years has become incredibly strong. It was the science that drove me to change my mind. I think we've forgotten it's the smoker and potential smoker we're supposed to be helping. They're people too. You can't forget that."|David Abrams, PhD, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health]]
[[file:Scotland Linda Bauld PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Jerome Adams, MD, MPH===
===[https://www.thevapingtoday.com/dr-ehsan-latif-who-and-fctc-secretariat-cannot-sustain-their-current-position/ Dr. Ehsan Latif]===
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/JeromeAdamsMD Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/jeromeadamsmd/status/1068463736208412672 Quote source]
*Find quote
<br>
===Christopher Russell, PhD===
*[https://mobile.twitter.com/nicotinesurveys Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.ukma.edu.ua/eng/index.php/news/646-sep-22-1600-christopher-russell-open-lecture-how-smokers-become-vapers-and-how-doctors-can-help Bio] /
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Jerome Adams, MD, MPH.png|center]]
[[file:Scotland Christopher Russell PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS===
 
*[https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jahluwal Bio and Photo] / [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/06/07/e-cigs-seen-as-inclusive-harm-reduction-strategy/ Quote Source]
='''South Africa'''=
 
 
===Dr Kgosi Letlape===
*[https://www.infocusthr.org/kgosi-letlape Bio] / [https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/global-tobacco-control-hugely-outdated-dr-kgosi-letlape/ Photo and Quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS.png|center]]
[[File:South Africa Dr. Kgosi Letlape2.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA===
===Solomon Rataemane===
*[https://twitter.com/antintamar Follow on Twitter] / [https://criticalpublichealth.org/tamar-antin/ Photo and Bio]
*[https://twitter.com/srataema Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.scohre.org/ambassadors/south-africa/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/No_Smoke_Summit/status/1572985285247660034 Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
[[File:South Africa Solomon Rataemane.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Alex Azar, JD===
 
*[https://twitter.com/AlexAzar Follow on Twitter] / [https://public3.pagefreezer.com/browse/HHS.gov/15-01-2021T20:37/https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/secretary/alex-m-azar/index.html Photo and Bio] / [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435039-azar-gottlieb-pen-op-ed-warning-of-regulatory-crackdown-on-e/?rl=1 Quote Source]
='''South Korea'''=
<br>
 
[[file:US Alex Azar JD.png|center]]
 
===Young-bum Park, PhD===
Professor
Department of Economics
Hansung University
South Korea
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===David J. K. Balfour, DSc===
='''Spain'''=
*2005-2006 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
 
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
 
===Manuel Linares Abad, PhD===
*Professor.
*Nurse specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
*Former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
*University of Jaen, Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
===Scott Ballin, JD===
===José Mª García Basterrechea, MD===
*[https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/2019/09/13/vaping-lung-illness-e-cigarettes-thc-vitamin-e-acetate-smoking-marijuana-cannabis-oil-cbd-cigarettes/2304006001/ Photo: ] Monique Calello / The News Leader
Associate Professor of Medicine
*[https://gtnf.org/scott-ballin Bio:] Has served as chairman of the Coalition on Smoking or Health (the precursor to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids); vice president of the American Heart Association; steering committee of the Alliance for Health Economic and Agriculture Development (AHEAD); advisor to the Food and Drug Law Institute’s tobacco conferences; advisor to the University of Virginia's Morven Dialogues on tobacco, nicotine and harm reduction.
University of Murcia
*[https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/92D1F9E7-9D6A-41AB-B79C-DF2122A5340A Statement:] Most smokers want to quit and if we can provide those smokers with science based, consumer acceptable lower risk products we could fundamentally alter the current  marketplace and save hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.
Former head, Addiction and Dual Pathology Unit
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
Reina Sofía Hospital. Spain.
**This year approximately 8 million people will die prematurely from smoking. I am deeply disappointed with what can only be described as an ongoing 'dark ages' approach to tobacco control. While many traditional forms of tobacco control remain useful and effective, little has been done by the WHO and many other mainstream public health organizations to acknowledge and think about how regulation, research, technology and innovation can be collectively harnessed to give the billion addicted cigarette smokers viable science based lower risk products. Science and 'safe-haven' engagement and debate continues to be displaced with polarized thinking that often is more focused on getting media attention than actually finding workable win-win solutions for the good of society.
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
**Scott D. Ballin, JD
**Health Policy Consultant
**Former Vice President and Legislative Counsel, American Heart Association
**Former Chairman of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health (AHA, ASCS. ALA)
**Advisor to the University of Virginia, Institute for and Engagement and Negotiation (The Morven Dialogues)
<br>
<br>
 
===Neal Benowitz===
*1996-1997 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
===Chelsea Boyd===
===Fernando Fernández Bueno, MD===
*[https://twitter.com/BeforeChelsea Follow on Twitter]
Oncological surgeon at the Hospital Central de la
*(Disclosures...)
Defensa Gómez Ulla
Professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares
Madrid
Spain
*[https://twitter.com/fernandezbueno Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.vozpopuli.com/sanidad/cigarrillos-electronicos-fumar.html Quote Source]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
 
===Carmen Escrig, PhD===
===Jeffrey Brandes===
*[https://twitter.com/EscrigCarmen Follow on Twitter] / [https://vaporyciencia.com/acerca-de/ Bio] / [https://nicotinepolicy.net/blogs/guest-blogs/38-escrig-carmen/119-move-campaign Quote Source]
*[https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/2020-2022/S24 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1425863211656548360 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/JeffreyBrandes Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Jeffrey Brandes AA BS Senator.png|center]]
[[File:Spain Carmen Escrig 2.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Miguel de la Guardia PhD===
===Thomas Brandon, PhD===
Professor of Analytical Cemistry
*Earlier this year, the findings from a major clinical trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that e-cigarettes were almost twice as effective as the nicotine patch for producing one year of smoking cessation. These findings added to those of other, smaller studies previously published. 
University of Valencia
*[https://moffitt.org/newsroom/press-release-archive/2019/moffitt-cancer-center-studies-how-e-cigarettes-help-smokers-quit/ This could be a game-changer for lots of people,” says Thomas Brandon, Ph.D]., director of Moffitt’s Tobacco Research and Intervention Program and chair of the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior. *“It means that for smokers who have not been able to quit by using the available medications, vaping might be worth a try. But it is important to completely switch from smoking to vaping to get the most health benefits.”
Spain
*[https://moffitt.org/research-science/research-teams/tobacco-research-and-intervention-program-trip/meet-the-trip-team/#:~:text=Thomas%20Brandon%2C%20PhD%2C%20is%20the,Behavior%20at%20Moffitt%20Cancer%20Center.&text=With%20interventions%2C%20he%20has%20concentrated,treatments%20and%20self%2Dhelp%20interventions. Thomas Brandon, PhD, is the Director of the Tobacco Research and Intervention Program] and Chair of the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior at Moffitt Cancer Center.  He is also Professor of Psychology and Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://twitter.com/Vapingit/status/1454534518824636418/photo/1 SEE: Tweet w/graphic]
<br>
<br>
[[File:Thomas_Brandon_PhD.jpg|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Susan Cameron, MBA===
===Maria del Mar Sangüesa Jareño, MD===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-cameron-3b452678/ Photo and Bio] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20140922041813/https://fortune.com/2014/09/18/susan-cameron-reynolds-american/ Quote] and
Intensive Care Specialist
University Hospital of Ceuta,
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Susan Cameron, MBA.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===José David García Muñiz, MD, PhD===
===Richard H Carmona MD, MPH, FACS===
Clinical Pharmacology and Internal Medicine
*[https://twitter.com/DrRichCarmona Follow on Twitter] / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona Photo and bio] / [https://publichealth.arizona.edu/directory/richard-carmona Bio] / [https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/Richard%20Carmona%20testimony%20e-cigarette.pdf Quote Source]
Clinical Trials Coordinator, Principal Investigator
*Disclosure: In 2013 joined the board of directors of [https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/mar/25/ex-surgeon-general-joins-e-cigarette-firm-20130325/ NJOY]
University Hospital of Ceuta
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Richard H Carmona MD, MPH, FACS.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Jose Miguel Rodriguez (Gonzalez-Moro)===
===Representative Julie A. Casimiro===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-miguel-rodriguez-gonzalez-moro-66b6a634/?originalSubdomain=es Photo and Bio] / [https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/enfermedad-mental-tabaquismo-alternativas-cigarrillo-pacientes-reduccion-dano.html Quote Source]
*[https://www.rilegislature.gov/representatives/Casimiro/Pages/Biography.aspx Photo and Bio] / [https://www.providencejournal.com/story/opinion/2019/10/24/our-turn-rep-julie-a-casimiro-mike-runshe-dino-barcarri-we-need-sensible-vaping-policies/2453073007/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/JulieCasimiroRI Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Representative Julie A. Casimiro.png|center]]
[[file:Spain Jose Miguel Rodriguez (1).png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Antonio Sierra, MD, PhD===
===Suzanne M. Colby, PhD===
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public
*[https://vivo.brown.edu/display/scolby Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/suzanne_colby Follow on Twitter]
Health at the University of La Laguna.
*Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University
Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the
*2019-2020 President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
University of La Laguna
Former General Director of Public Health of the
Government of the Canary Islands
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
===Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD, MPH===
===Francisco Garcia Sierra, MD.===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/facultydirectory/Cummings-Kenneth Bio and Photo]
Head of the Nephrology Service
University Hospital of Ceuta
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Josep María Ramón Torrell, MD, PhD.===
===Brittani Cushman (TPB) spelling?===
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
*(Disclosure)
University of Barcelona
<br>
Head of Clinical Prevention Research Group
<br>
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institut
 
Head of Tobacco Prevention Service
===David Dobbins, JD, MPH===
Bellvitge Hospital
*[https://tobaccoreporter.com/2022/12/01/reality-check-3/ Source of Quote] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-dobbins-51a0794/ Source of Photo]
Barcelona, Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US David Dobbins JD MPH.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Angel González Ureña, PhD===
===Clifford E. Douglas, J.D===
Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry.
*[https://twitter.com/cdoug Follow on Twitter] / [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C1nk1XEZ8WhnOXtCGTqHdeqomc9HOuko/view Source: Quote] / [https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/douglas-clifford.html Bio and photo]:
Complutense University of Madrid
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Clifford Douglas JD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Allan Erickson===
='''Singapore'''=
*No Photo found / [https://www.tobaccoreform.org/#takeaction Bio] / [https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_4/ Quote Source]
 
 
===Tan Kok Kuan, MD===
Medical Director
Dr Tan Medical Center
Novena Medical Center
Singapore
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Allan Erickson.png|center]]
 
<br>
===Andrew John da Roza===
===Michael Eriksen, ScD===
Psychotherapist - Addictions
*[https://twitter.com/MPEriksen Follow on Twitter] / [https://publichealth.gsu.edu/profile/michaeleriksen/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.vox.com/2019/11/22/20977418/vaping-lung-disease-ban-public-health Quote Source]
Promises Health Care Pte. Ltd.
Singapore
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:US Michael Eriksen ScD.png|center]]
 
='''Sweden'''=
 
 
===[https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2017-06-14_snus-appeal-letter.html Professor Tony Axéll]===
*find quote
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===[https://www.wpr.org/health-officials-look-cut-number-smokers-about-10m-2024 Michael Fiore]===
===Curt Enzell===
*"In just today, we are going to lose 20 of our residents. Twenty individuals in Wisconsin are going to die prematurely of a disease directly caused by their smoking, on average, robbing them of 10 to 15 years of life." " Many adults don't want children exposed to secondhand smoke. Vaping is, without a question, less dangerous than cigarette smoking."
*[https://snusochtandsticksmuseum.se/en/history/snus/the-inventor-of-the-portion-snus-interview-with-curt-enzell/ Quote Source]
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===KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD===
*[https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/tobacco-harm-reduction-the-stunning-success-of-snus-in-sweden/ Quote and some Bio Info] / [https://www.infocusthr.org/karl-fagerstrom Bio and Photo]
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===Steve Forbes===
[[File:Sweden KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD.png|center]]
*Find quote
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===Jonathan Foulds PhD===
===Anders Milton MD, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/JonathanFoulds Follow on Twitter] / [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote source] / [https://cancer.psu.edu/researchers/individual/-/researcher/5B6500F63D2138DBE0540010E056499A/jonathan-foulds-phd Bio and Photo]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://sobrera.com/board-of-directors/ Bio and Photo]
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[[file:US Jonathan Foulds PhD.png|center]]
[[File:Sweden Anders Milton MD, PhD.png|center]]
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===Abigail S. Friedman PhD===
===Lars Ramström PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/AFriedmanPhD Follow on Twitter] / [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/abigail_friedman/ Bio and Photo]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo]
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[[file:US Abigail S. Friedman PhD.png|center]]
[[File:Sweden Lars Ramström PhD.png|center]]
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===Stephen F. Gambescia, PhD===
='''Switzerland'''=
*[https://drexel.edu/cnhp/faculty/profiles/GambesciaStephen/ Bio and Photo] / [https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2017/01/e-cigarettes_1.html Quote Source]
 
 
===Gizelle Baker===
*[https://twitter.com/GizelleBaker Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:US Stephen F. Gambescia, PhD.png|center]]
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===Charles A. Gardner, PhD===
===Jean-François Etter, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/ChaunceyGardner Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/etterjf Follow on Twitter]
Professor of public health
Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine
University of Geneva
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Moira Gilchrist PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/DrGilchrist Follow on Twitter] / [https://brand-studio.fortune.com/philip-morris-international/driving-positive-change-through-science/?prx_t=FhgIAAAAAAoPEQA Quote Source 1] / [https://www.pmi.com/our-transformation/why-i-joined-pmi Quote Source 2] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/moira-gilchrist-pmi/ Bio] / [https://www.pmi.com/sustainability/innovating-for-better-products/product-health-impacts Photo]
*Disclosure: Experience in Pharmaceutical and Tobacco Industries.
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===Karen K Gerlach, PhD, MPH===
[[File:Switzerland Moira Gilchrist PhD.png|center]]
*[https://www.womblebonddickinson.com/us/people/karen-gerlach Photo and Bio] / [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/11/07/accurate-information-on-nicotine-to-save-smokers-lives/ Quote Source]
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[[file:US Karen K Gerlach PhD MPH.png|center]]  
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===Joe Gitchell===
===Tikki Elka Pang, PhD===
*find quote
Former Director,
*(Disclosures)
Research Policy & Cooperation,
<br>
WHO, Geneva
<br>
Switzerland
===Thomas J. Glynn, PhD===
Adjunct Lecturer
Prevention Research Center
School of Medicine, Stanford University
Formerly, Associate Director, Cancer Control
Science Program, U.S. National Cancer Institute,
and Director, Cancer Science and Trends,
American Cancer Society
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Marina Suvakov===
*PMI
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===Bill Godshall===
='''Tunisia'''=
[https://issuu.com/tiffanytandrade/docs/electroniccigarettes Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NYSVaporAssoc/status/913138800381095937 Photo Source]
 
 
===Fares Mili MD-CTTS- NCTTP===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source:] / [https://www.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/fares-mili/ Bio and Photo]
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[[file:US Bill Godshall.png|center]]
[[File:Tunisia Fares Mili MD CTTS NCTTP.png|center]]
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===Dr. Scott Gottlieb===
='''United Arab Emirates'''=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Gottlieb Bio] / [https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD Photo] / [https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/1170350199077818369 Quote 1] [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/speeches-fda-officials/protecting-american-families-comprehensive-approach-nicotine-and-tobacco-06282017 Quote 2] [https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD Follow on Twitter]
 
 
===GOPAL BHATNAGAR, MD===
*[https://twitter.com/docgopal Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.rights4vapers.com/our-team/ Photo and Bio] / [https://cusjc.ca/healthycigs/health-matters/ Quote Source]
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[[file:US Dr Scott Gottlieb.png|center]]
[[file:UAE GOPAL BHATNAGAR, MD2.png|center|alt=Gopal Bhatnagar, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi. Former Chief of Staff, Trillium Health Centre, Ontario, Canada. Vape Shop Owner: You just don’t victimize smokers twice. You don’t make something that’s hyper-addictive freely available to people and then you victimize them again by saying well you know there’s a technology that has the ability to help you get off this… but we’re going to restrict that.|Gopal Bhatnagar, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi. Former Chief of Staff, Trillium Health Centre, Ontario, Canada. Vape Shop Owner.]]
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===Marc Gunther===
===Cother Hajat, MBBS PhD FFPH FRCP===
*[https://twitter.com/MarcGunther Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/CotherHajat Follow on Twitter]
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===Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, BS===
='''United States'''=
*[https://twitter.com/DrScottHadland Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.bumc.bu.edu/care/faculty/scott-hadland/ Photo and Bio]
 
 
===David Abrams PhD===
*[https://knownicotine.com/ Photo: Documentary - You Don't Know Nicotine] / [https://watchibex.com/programs/ydkn?cid=1505479 Quote] / [https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/david-b-abrams Bio]
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[[file:US Scott Hadland, MD.png|center]]
[[file:US David Abrams.png|center|alt=David Abrams, PhD, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health: "E-cigarettes are substantially less harmful than burning toxic tobacco. They can help some people who have been unable to quit to switch and save their lives. The science in the last 2-3 years has become incredibly strong. It was the science that drove me to change my mind. I think we've forgotten it's the smoker and potential smoker we're supposed to be helping. They're people too. You can't forget that."|David Abrams, PhD, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health]]
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===Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD===
===Jerome Adams, MD, MPH===
*[https://med.umn.edu/bio/psychiatry/dorothy-hatsukami Bio and Photo]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/JeromeAdamsMD Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/jeromeadamsmd/status/1068463736208412672 Quote source]
*1999-2000 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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[[file:US Jerome Adams, MD, MPH.png|center]]
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===Nan Hayworth, MD===
===Jonathan H. Adler, JD===
*[https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/15602#biography Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/NanHayworth/status/1572001216569249794 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NanHayworth Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/jadler1969 Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-adler-0956595/ Photo] / [https://case.edu/law/centers-institutes/burke-environmental-law-center/about-director Bio] / [https://reason.com/volokh/2022/07/08/the-food-drug-administration-has-a-vaping-problem/ Quote source]
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[[file:Nan Hayworth MD.png|center]]
[[file:US Jonathan H. Adler, JD.png|center|alt=Jonathan H. Adler, JD Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law: "The reality, however, is that vaping products are far-less dangerous than combustible cigarettes, providing consumers with a safer way to consume nicotine and giving smokers a more effective means of quitting..."|Jonathan H. Adler, JD Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law]]
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===Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS===
===Dr. Cheryl Healton===
*[https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jahluwal Bio and Photo] / [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/06/07/e-cigs-seen-as-inclusive-harm-reduction-strategy/ Quote Source]
*[https://twitter.com/DrCherylHealton Follow on Twitter]
*[https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/cheryl-healton Bio / Photo is on her bio page:]
Founding President and CEO of American Legacy Foundation (created from MSA Funds, now known as the Truth Initiative);
Dean of School of Global Public Health and Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, NYU School of Global Public Health;
Founding chair of the Public Health Practice Council of the Association of Schools of Public Health;
Serves on the National Board of Public Health Examiners, the Betty Ford Institute, Lung Cancer Alliance, Board of Directors at the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and the Board of Directors at HealthRight International.
Tobacco Harm Reduction Quote: [http://vimeo.com/557522524 E-cigarette Summit 2021]
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://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/legacy-begins-national-search-for-next-president-and-chief-executive-officer-173289731.html Retirement from American Legacy (now Truth)]
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[[file:US Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS.png|center]]
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===Matthew Holman, PhD===
 
*[https://www.e-cigarette-summit.us.com/speaker/matthew-r-holman/ Photo Source] / [https://www.chron.com/opinion/article/commentary-17602245.php Quote Source]
===Bart Andrews, PhD===
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-andrews-6411a931/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/BartAndrews/status/1196149401858777089 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/BartAndrews Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:US Matt Holman PHD.png|center]]  
[[file:US Bart Andrews PhD.png|center|alt=Bart Andrews, PhD, Vice President, Telehealth and Home and Community Services, BHR: "Regardless of whether someone is predestined or not, some will use. That’s why harm reduction tools are incredibly important and why attempts to restrict or criminalize vaping increase harm."|Bart Andrews, PhD, Vice President, Telehealth and Home and Community Services, BHR]]
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===Matthew Wayne Johnson, Ph.D.===
===Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA===
[https://filtermag.org/nicotine-drug-prohibition-tobacco-harm-reduction/ Quote] / [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/matthew-johnson Bio and Photo]
*[https://twitter.com/antintamar Follow on Twitter] / [https://criticalpublichealth.org/tamar-antin/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.smokefreeworld.org/why-has-the-who-fctc-failed-to-reduce-adult-smoking-and-its-health-impact/ Quote Source]
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[[file:US Matthew Johnson PhD.png|center]]
[[file:US Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA.png|center|alt=Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA, Director, Center for Critical Public Health:  "...ignoring the potential benefits of harm reduction strategies may unintentionally lead to an erosion of trust in tobacco control among some members of the public.”|Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA, Director, Center for Critical Public Health ]]
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===Senator Ron Johnson===
 
*Wisconsin
===Alex Azar, JD===
*[https://twitter.com/AlexAzar Follow on Twitter] / [https://public3.pagefreezer.com/browse/HHS.gov/15-01-2021T20:37/https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/secretary/alex-m-azar/index.html Photo and Bio] / [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435039-azar-gottlieb-pen-op-ed-warning-of-regulatory-crackdown-on-e/?rl=1 Quote Source]
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[[file:US Alex Azar JD.png|center]]
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===Peter Killeen PhD===
===David J. K. Balfour, DSc===
*[https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/56114 Bio] / [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/health-studies/2014-10-24_nicotine-addiction.html Photo Source] / [https://emerituscollege.asu.edu/sites/default/files/ecdw/EVoice21/killeen21.html Quote Source]
*2005-2006 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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[[file:US Peter Killeen.png|center]]
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===Scott Ballin, JD===
===Bethea A Kleykamp, MA, PhD===
*[https://gtnf.org/scott-ballin Photo and Bio:] / [https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/92D1F9E7-9D6A-41AB-B79C-DF2122A5340A Quote Source]  
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethea-annie-kleykamp-ma-phd-57505128 Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/akleykamp Follow on Twitter]
*COI: I currently have no conflicts of interest with respect to tobacco, vaping or pharmaceutical industries. From May 2014 to September 2018, I provided harm reduction consulting services to an e-cigarette company (NJOY) and a tobacco company (RJ Reynolds) through my work at Pinney Associates.
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[[file:US Annie Kleykamp PhD.png|center]]
[[file:US Scott Ballin, JD.png|center|alt=Scott D. Ballin, JD, Health Policy Consultant. Former VP and Legislative Counsel, American Heart Association. Former Chairman of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health (precursor to CTFK): "On the issue of flavorings, any concerns about flavoring and youth initiation should be balanced with ensuring that significantly lower risk products such as cigarettes are consumer acceptable to the millions of smokers looking to quit. This obviously involves flavorings and palatability. Nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) have long been available in a wide variety of flavors..."|Scott D. Ballin, JD, Health Policy Consultant. Former VP and Legislative Counsel, American Heart Association. Former Chairman of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health (precursor to CTFK).]]
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===Robin Koval===
 
*[https://www.prevention.com/health/a24233519/is-vaping-bad-for-you/ Quote Source] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230122062253/https://twitter.com/robinkoval Photo] / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Koval Bio]
===Ronald Bayer, PhD===
*[https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/rb8 Photo and Bio] / [https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/08/ecigarettes-harm-reduction-big-tobacco/ Quote Source]
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[[file:US Robin Koval.png|center]]
[[file:US Bayer and Fairchild.png|center|alt=Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH: "Rejecting e-cigarettes because the tobacco industry will profit from them has the virtue of being uncompromising. But it also means rejecting the evidence and accepting the predictable, deadly toll of cigarette smoking. That’s a virtue, we argue, the world can no longer afford."|Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH.]]
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===[https://www.huffpost.com/author/lynn-t-kozlowski-phd Lynn Kozlowski]===
===Neal Benowitz===
*[https://twitter.com/ltkoz1 Follow on Twitter]
*1996-1997 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/e-cigarettes_b_4550443 E-cigs vs. Cigs: Cut Through, Cut In, Cut Down, Cut Out]
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===Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA===
===Aaron Biebert, BS===
*[https://conscienhealth.org/about-ted-kyle-rph-mba/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/ConscienHealth/status/1108696010837159936 Source: Quote] / [https://twitter.com/ConscienHealth Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/Biebert Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/biebert/ Bio] / [https://vaporvoice.net/2020/12/29/in-youdontknownicotine-biebert-looks-inside-the-vaping-and-nicotine-industry-thirdlinefilms-eliquid-science-business/ Quote Source]
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[[file:US Ted Kyle RPh MBA 2.png|center]]  
[[file:US Aaron Biebert2.png|center|alt=Aaron Biebert, BS, Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Former President, Clear Medical Solutions: "I believe it is a human right to have the accurate information needed to make personal health decisions about nicotine use as well as access to the safest nicotine-delivery system a person chooses without facing shame, stigma or “sin taxes.” There is a scientific consensus that nicotine vapor products are safer than cigarettes, so I believe they should be available and encouraged."|Aaron Biebert, BS, Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Former President, Clear Medical Solutions.]]
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===Jody Lanard MD===
===Chelsea Boyd===
*[https://twitter.com/EIDGeek Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.psandman.com/index-infec.htm Photo] / [https://www.psandman.com/handouts/AIHA/page66.pdf Bio] / [https://twitter.com/EIDGeek/status/1611183075354107904 Quote Source]
*[https://twitter.com/BeforeChelsea Follow on Twitter]
*(Disclosures...)
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[[file:US Jody Lanard, MD.png|center]]
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===Harry A. Lando, PhD===
===Professor Neil Boyd===
*2002-2003 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
*[https://icclr.org/vaci/people/advisory-committee/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/NeilBoydSFU/status/1590351959974117378 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NeilBoydSFU Follow on Twitter]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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[[file:US Professor Neil Boyd.png|center|alt=Neil Boyd, Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University: "For current smokers, vaping is a much preferable alternative to combustion, and should not be discouraged, relative to the smoking of tobacco. Agree with restrictions on marketing to children."|Neil Boyd, Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University]]
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===Scott Leischow, PhD===
===Jeffrey Brandes===
*2008-2009 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/2020-2022/S24 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1425863211656548360 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/JeffreyBrandes Follow on Twitter]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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[[file:US Jeffrey Brandes AA BS Senator.png|center]]
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===Thomas Brandon, PhD===
*[https://moffitt.org/endeavor/archive/e-cigarettes-ok-to-quit-smoking/ Quote source & photo] / [https://moffitt.org/research-science/researchers/thomas-brandon/ Bio]
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[[File:US Thomas Brandon, PhD.png|center|alt=Thomas Brandon, PhD Director, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tobacco Research and Intervention Program: "All of these studies, together with those from other labs, have informed my perspective that  e-cigarettes represent the most important change in the landscape of tobacco use during my 36 years in this field. We need to harness this change to maximize the public health benefit from it."|Thomas Brandon, PhD Director, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tobacco Research and Intervention Program]]
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===Caryn Lerman, PhD===
 
*2010-2011 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
===Susan Cameron, MBA===
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-cameron-3b452678/ Photo and Bio] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20140922041813/https://fortune.com/2014/09/18/susan-cameron-reynolds-american/ Quote] and
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[[file:US Susan Cameron, MBA.png|center]]
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===Alex Liber===
 
*[https://twitter.com/AlexCLiber Follow on Twitter]
===Richard H Carmona MD, MPH, FACS===
*[https://twitter.com/DrRichCarmona Follow on Twitter] / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona Photo and bio] / [https://publichealth.arizona.edu/directory/richard-carmona Bio] / [https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/Richard%20Carmona%20testimony%20e-cigarette.pdf Quote Source]
*Disclosure: In 2013 joined the board of directors of [https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/mar/25/ex-surgeon-general-joins-e-cigarette-firm-20130325/ NJOY]
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[[file:US Richard H Carmona MD, MPH, FACS.png|center]]
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===Stefani Lord===
 
*[https://twitter.com/Lord4NM Follow on Twitter]
===Representative Julie A. Casimiro===
*[https://twitter.com/GregTHR/status/1620094046676082688 New Mexico]
*[https://www.rilegislature.gov/representatives/Casimiro/Pages/Biography.aspx Photo and Bio] / [https://www.providencejournal.com/story/opinion/2019/10/24/our-turn-rep-julie-a-casimiro-mike-runshe-dino-barcarri-we-need-sensible-vaping-policies/2453073007/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/JulieCasimiroRI Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:US Representative Julie A. Casimiro.png|center]]
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===Dr. Michael Madden===
===Azim Chowdhury, JD===
*[https://triblive.com/opinion/dr-michael-madden-clearing-the-air-about-youth-vaping/ Dr. Michael Madden: Clearing the air about youth vaping]
*[https://twitter.com/ECIGattorney Follow on Twitter]
*Disclosure
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===Robin Mermelstein, Ph.D.===
===Gal Cohen, PhD===
Distinguished Professor, Liberal Arts and Sciences
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gcohen/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.healthworkscollective.com/future-e-cigarettes-world-public-health/ Quote Source]
Psychology Department
Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy
Co-Director, Center for Clinical and Translational
Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
*2015-2016 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
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[[file:US Gal Cohen PhD.png|center|alt=Gal Cohen, PhD Head of Scientific Affairs, Rose Research Center Former Principal Scientist, JUUL Labs: "The reality we face as a society is that in spite of decades of concerted tobacco control initiatives and the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry, cigarettes are likely not going away soon.  E-vapor products offer the most realistic opportunity to displace cigarette use in smokers who have not been able to quit with traditional methods.  I predict that e-vapor products will ultimately be understood by the public health community as having a role when used responsibly as second-line harm reduction products for adult smokers."|Gal Cohen, PhD Head of Scientific Affairs, Rose Research Center Former Principal Scientist, JUUL Labs]]
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===Tom Miller JD===
===Ari Cohn, JD===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20220928031914/https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/statement-by-attorney-general-tom-miller-on-electronic-cigarettes Quote source] / [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Tom_Miller Photo and Bio]
*[https://aricohn.com/#about Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/AriCohn Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/AriCohn/status/1629213573040816129 Quote source]
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[[file:US Ari Cohn, JD.png|center|alt=Ari Cohn, JD: "While vaping isn't totally safe (of course, no amount of car driving is totally safe either), it is certainly--on the whole--safer than smoking.  And there's evidence that e-cigs are more effective at helping people quit smoking than other options"|Ari Cohn, JD]]
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===Suzanne M. Colby, PhD===
===Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA===
*[https://vivo.brown.edu/display/scolby Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/suzanne_colby Follow on Twitter]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Murthy Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/1075734966821142529 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/Surgeon%20General Follow on Twitter]
*Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University
*2019-2020 President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
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===Ethan A Nadelmann===
===James Colgrove, PhD, MPH===
*[https://twitter.com/ethannadelmann Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/jc988 Photo and Bio] / [https://www.thecre.com/tpsac/?p=2666 Quote Source]
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
**It took WHO all too many years to embrace “harm reduction” thinking and policies vis a vis consumers of illicit drugs but it eventually did. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives, could have been saved if WHO had acted earlier to transcend the political forces and counterproductive ideologies and rhetoric that drove the war on drugs and its insistence on punitive abstinence-only policies.
**Yet now we see WHO repeating very similar mistakes as it resists and dismisses the technological innovations in tobacco and nicotine products that could radically reduce associated harms to both consumers and society at large. The organization’s leaders need to open their eyes and summon the courage to follow the science, not the politics. Failure to do so may ultimately result in the emergence of an international tobacco/nicotine prohibition regime with all the failures, costs and counter-productive consequences of the failed global drug prohibition regime.
**Ethan A Nadelmann - [https://drugpolicy.org/staff/ethan-nadelmann-founder Bio] and [https://twitter.com/ethannadelmann/status/857637028883771396 Photo]
**Founder & Former Executive Director (2000-2017)
**Drug Policy Alliance
**New York and International
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[[file:US James Colgrove, PhD, MPH.png|center|alt=James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health: "Although some e-cigarette manufacturers have no links to the tobacco industry, Big Tobacco is consuming an ever-greater share of the e-cigarette market. It is hard for public health advocates like us to look favorably on anything the industry wants. But history shows that harm reduction — the doctrine that many risks cannot be eradicated and that efforts are best spent on minimizing the resulting harm — has had an important place in antismoking efforts and suggests that regulation is better than prohibition. If e-cigarettes can reduce, even slightly, the blight of six million tobacco-related deaths a year, trying to force them out of sight is counterproductive."|James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health]]
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===Cam Nereim, MD, FAAP===
===Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD, MPH===
*[https://health.usf.edu/medicine/pediatrics/directories/cnereim Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrCamNereim Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/DrCamNereim/status/1611211453511483393 Quote Source]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/facultydirectory/Cummings-Kenneth Bio and Photo]
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===Paul Newhouse===
===Brittani Cushman (TPB) spelling?===
*[https://twitter.com/DrPaulNewhouse Follow on Twitter]
*(Disclosure)
[http://web.archive.org/web/20211008063529/https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/study-finds-nicotine-safe-helps-in-alzheimers-parkinsons/2175396/ Quote source] "It [nicotine] seems very safe even in nonsmokers. In our studies we find it actually reduces blood pressure chronically. And there were no addiction or withdrawal problems, and nobody started smoking cigarettes. The risk of addiction to nicotine alone is virtually nil."
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===Raymond S. Niaura, PhD===
 
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
===Cristine Delnevo, PhD, MPH, FAAHB===
**Misinformation that conflates the term tobacco control with all forms of nicotine delivery regardless of harm thus egregiously deprives smokers, the public, policymakers and governments of responsible policymaking and individual choice, grossly ignores the full weight of current scientific evidence, evidence that can and should more rapidly make the most lethal combusted forms of smoked tobacco obsolete and save millions and millions of lives and suffering much sooner that could otherwise be achieved. Telling the whole truth to the world should be the sole mission of WHO and it can and should do better.
*[https://twitter.com/CrisDelnevo Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6blLFiGM8&list=PLDHUc__idSQkHwN6MScIl0amhODjGer6x&index=10 Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristine-delnevo-77623b7/ Photo and Bio]
**Raymond Niaura PhD. ([https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Bio and Photo])
**Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
**New York University School of Global Public Health
**Former: Director of Science and Training at the Schroeder Institute (SI) for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the [https://truthinitiative.org/ Truth Initiative], and former President of the [https://www.srnt.org/ Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
**Deputy Editor of the [https://academic.oup.com/ntr Nicotine and Tobacco Research]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
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===Joel Nitzkin, MD===
===David Dobbins, JD, MPH===  
*[https://www.rstreet.org/team/joel-nitzkin/ Bio and photo] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20210618212236/https://2o9ub0417chl2lg6m43em6psi2i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20160406AlaskaLtrTobcLegis-1.pdf Quote Source and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/JoelNitzkin Follow on Twitter]
*[https://tobaccoreporter.com/2022/12/01/reality-check-3/ Source of Quote] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-dobbins-51a0794/ Source of Photo]
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===Joe Nocera===
===Clifford E. Douglas, J.D===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/joenocera/ Photo and Bio] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20191220040415/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-19/u-s-prefers-mass-hysteria-to-sound-policy-on-vaping Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/opinion_joe Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/cdoug Follow on Twitter] / [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C1nk1XEZ8WhnOXtCGTqHdeqomc9HOuko/view Source: Quote] / [https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/douglas-clifford.html Bio and photo]:
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===Amy Nyman, MA===
===David L. Eaton PhD===
*[https://publichealth.gsu.edu/profile/amy-nyman/ Photo and Bio] / [https://news.gsu.edu/2019/11/20/study-finds-increase-in-number-of-u-s-adults-who-perceive-e-cigarettes-more-harmful-than-traditional-cigarettes/ Quote Source]
*[https://deohs.washington.edu/faculty/david-l-eaton Photo and Bio] / [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/do-e-cigarettes-help-or-harm-jurys-still-out-panel-says/ Quote Source]  
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===Michael Ogden, Phd===
===Allan Erickson===
*[https://gtnf.org/mike-ogden Photo Source] / [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/11/07/accurate-information-on-nicotine-to-save-smokers-lives/ Quote Source]
*No Photo found / [https://www.tobaccoreform.org/#takeaction Bio] / [https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_4/ Quote Source]
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===Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D.===
 
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.drcherylolson.com/bio/ Bio and Photo] /
===Michael Eriksen, ScD===
*[https://twitter.com/MPEriksen Follow on Twitter] / [https://publichealth.gsu.edu/profile/michaeleriksen/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.vox.com/2019/11/22/20977418/vaping-lung-disease-ban-public-health Quote Source]
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===Jason Osborne===
===Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH===
*[https://www.facebook.com/osborne4nh/posts/2431511483739590 Photo and Quote Source]
*See [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Nicotine_/_THR_-_Statements_from_Experts#Ronald_Bayer%2C_PhD Ronald Bayer, PhD for quote]. / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-fairchild-873635195/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/AmyLFairchild Follow on Twitter]
*Disclosure: [https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/rep-jason-osborne-nh-should-not-tax-harm-reduction/article_d5e0b30a-5c65-5b4c-9d51-a0e5fb8dfa4b.html Rep. Osborne used vapor technology to quit smoking]
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[[file:US Bayer and Fairchild.png|center|alt=Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH: "Rejecting e-cigarettes because the tobacco industry will profit from them has the virtue of being uncompromising. But it also means rejecting the evidence and accepting the predictable, deadly toll of cigarette smoking. That’s a virtue, we argue, the world can no longer afford."|Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH.]]
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===Laura Leigh Oyler===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-leigh-oyler-70746145/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/RzbkRedMosquito/status/1555016723753046018 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/thegtnf/status/1577282403080380417 Example - children begging parents to smoke]
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===Amanda Palmer, PhD===
===David S. Fink, PhD, MPH===
*[https://twitter.com/AmandaPalmerPhD Follow on Twitter] / [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/FacultyDirectory/Palmer-Amanda Photo and Bio] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230114130120/https://twitter.com/AmandaPalmerPhD/status/1378049670572822532 Quote Source]
*[https://davidsfink.com/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DavidSFink Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/DavidSFink/status/1196473031553638400 Quote Source]
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===[https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5105003/ Tommy J Payne, JD]===
===Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA===
*[https://collectio.ecu.edu/chronicles/People/Tommy-Joe-Payne Bio]
*[https://www.wpr.org/health-officials-look-cut-number-smokers-about-10m-2024 Quote Source] / [https://ctri.wisc.edu/researchers/research-staff/dr-michael-fiore/ Photo and Bio]
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[[file:US Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA.png|center|alt=Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA Founder & Director University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention:"Twenty individuals in Wisconsin are going to die prematurely [today] of a disease directly caused by their smoking, on average, robbing them of 10 to 15 years of life...vaping is, without a question, less dangerous than cigarette smoking."|Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA Founder & Director University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention]]
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===Kenneth A. Perkins, PhD===
===Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr.)===
*2001-2002 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Forbes Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/SteveForbesCEO Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2022/09/08/based-more-on-emotion-than-science-steve-forbes-blasts-fda-vaping-rule/?sh=50ddfdfc3fee Quote Source]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Michael F. Pesko, PhD===
===Jonathan Foulds PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/mikepesko Follow on Twitter] / Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source of Quote]
*[https://twitter.com/JonathanFoulds Follow on Twitter] / [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote source] / [https://cancer.psu.edu/researchers/individual/-/researcher/5B6500F63D2138DBE0540010E056499A/jonathan-foulds-phd Bio and Photo]
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===Carl V. Phillips, MPP, PhD===
===Tom Frieden, MD, MPH===
*[https://twitter.com/carlvphillips Follow on Twitter] / [https://antithrlies.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/phillips-cv-aug2018.pdf Bio 1] and [https://antithrlies.com/about-cvphillips/ Bio 2] / [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776004/ Quote Source]
*[https://www.drtomfrieden.net/ Bio #1] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-frieden/ Photo and Bio #2] / [https://twitter.com/DrTomFrieden Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/t0105-e-cigarettes.html Quote source]
*Disclosure: Dr. Tom Frieden is President and CEO of [https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/team/tom-frieden Resolve to Save Lives] (an initiative housed at Vital Strategies), launched in 2017 with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (Bloomberg Philanthropies is a funder of Vital Strategies.)
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===Abigail S. Friedman PhD===
===Ovide Pomerleau, PHD===
*[https://twitter.com/AFriedmanPhD Follow on Twitter] / [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/abigail_friedman/ Bio and Photo]
*[https://www.umich-nicotine-lab.org/about-dr-ovide-pomerleau.html Bio and Photo]
*1995-1995 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Helen Redmond, LCSW===
 
*[https://twitter.com/aftariak Follow on Twitter] / [https://filtermag.org/author/helen-redmond/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/aftariak/status/1504184907312074752 Quote]
===Stephen F. Gambescia, PhD===
*[https://drexel.edu/cnhp/faculty/profiles/GambesciaStephen/ Bio and Photo] / [https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2017/01/e-cigarettes_1.html Quote Source]
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===Vaughan Rees, PhD===
===Charles A. Gardner, PhD===
*[https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/vaughan-rees/ Bio and Photo] / [https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/MJ20p16.shtml Quote Source]
*[https://twitter.com/ChaunceyGardner Follow on Twitter]
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===Nancy A. Rigotti, MD===
===Rob Gebelhoff, BA===
*2003-2004 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/22/democrats-proposal-tax-e-cigarettes-is-terrible-idea/ Quote source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-gebelhoff-a6696957/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/RobertGebelhoff Follow on Twitter]  
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Dr. Brad Rodu===
 
*[https://twitter.com/BradRodu Follow on Twitter]
===Karen K Gerlach, PhD, MPH===
*[https://www.womblebonddickinson.com/us/people/karen-gerlach Photo and Bio] / [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/11/07/accurate-information-on-nicotine-to-save-smokers-lives/ Quote Source]
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===Jed Rose (Title?)===
 
*[https://roseresearchcenter.com/dr-jed-rose/ Bio]
===Joe Gitchell===
*[https://conscienhealth.org/2015/10/the-tricky-matter-of-nicotine/ Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-gitchell-2bb6154/ Photo and Bio]
*CEO Pinney Associates - Consulting work for Smoking Harm Minimization and Pharma companies.
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===Veronique de Rugy, PhD===
===Thomas J. Glynn, PhD===
*[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/anti-vaping-scare-tactics-and-cigarette-sales/ Quote] / [https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/veronique-de-rugy Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/veroderugy Follow on Twitter]
Adjunct Lecturer
Prevention Research Center
School of Medicine, Stanford University
Formerly, Associate Director, Cancer Control
Science Program, U.S. National Cancer Institute,
and Director, Cancer Science and Trends,
American Cancer Society
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Sally Satel===
===Will Godfrey===
*[https://twitter.com/slsatel Follow on Twitter]
*Founder Filter
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===Steven A Schroeder, MD===
===Bill Godshall===
*Photo: E-Cig Summit 2020 / [https://history.library.ucsf.edu/schroeder.html Bio] / [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/juul-ban.html Quote Source]
[https://issuu.com/tiffanytandrade/docs/electroniccigarettes Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NYSVaporAssoc/status/913138800381095937 Photo Source]
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===[https://www.tobaccoreform.org/john-seffrin/ John Seffrin, MD, PhD]===
===Dr. Scott Gottlieb===
*[https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/image/galleries/07bf9f5b-4e71-47ab-b776-e19380c662ad/John%20R.%20Seffrin.JPG Photo]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Gottlieb Bio] / [https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD Photo] / [https://twitter.com/scottgottliebmd/status/1170350199077818369 Quote 1] [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/speeches-fda-officials/protecting-american-families-comprehensive-approach-nicotine-and-tobacco-06282017 Quote 2] [https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD Follow on Twitter]
[https://www.giantsofcancercare.com/recipients/2014/20 Source #1] and [https://www.upstate.edu/news/articles/2014/0506-barbara-resnick-phd-and-john-r-seffrin-phd-to-receive-honorary-degrees.php Source #2] Bio: Former CEO of the American Cancer Society and ACS Cancer Action Network. Served on the White House Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health, as well as the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also served on the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine and the National Cancer Legislation Advisory Committee. He is a past president of the International Union Against Cancer. He helped to create the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids (now the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids)
[https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_1/ Source #1] and [https://www.tobaccoreform.org/nasem-report-benefits-0f-e-cigarettes-and-harm-reduction-products-vs-combustible-cigarettes/ Source #2] Statement: Technologies/alternatives exist today that can help people quit smoking or at least reduce significantly their consumption of burned tobacco, which is what kills them. After fighting the tobacco epidemic for over 5 decades, we now have proven harm reduction methods to help us avoid a carnage in otherwise preventable deaths.
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===Arielle Selya, PhD===
 
*[https://twitter.com/ArielleSelya Follow on Twitter]
===Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH===
*(Disclosures.....)
*[https://www.sharonhgreen.com/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/sharonhgreen89 Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp1601154?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Quote Source]
(need to find a quote)
*[https://research.sanfordhealth.org/researchers-and-labs/selya-lab Bio #1]
*[https://www.pinneyassociates.com/team/arielle-selya-phd/ Bio #2 and photo]
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[[file:US Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH.png|center|alt=Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Berkeley: "In England, where leading medical organizations regard nicotine alone as relatively benign, the pressing need to reduce the risks for current smokers frames the debate. The overwhelming focus in the United States is abstinence. In the end, the sorts of policies that are implemented will depend on whether whoever dominates the debate views harm reduction as opportunity or anathema."|Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Berkeley]]
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===Michael Siegel===
===Marc Gunther===
*[https://twitter.com/mbsiegel Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/MarcGunther Follow on Twitter]
Visiting Professor,
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Department of Public Health and Community
<br>
Medicine
 
Tufts University School of Medicine
===Jené Gutierrez, MA===
Boston
*[https://catapult.co/jenegutierrez Photo and Bio] / [https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/actually-vaping-is-cool/ Quote Source]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:US Jené Gutierrez, MA.png|center|alt=Jené Gutierrez, MA, Journalist: "So here is my humble appeal to my fellow vape-judging brethren: Let’s admit that we were all wrong. Vaping,  95 percent healthier and 40 percent cheaper than smoking cigarettes, helps wean people off of an intense habit and naturally becomes an extension of their identity. So what? If this level of dedication to vaping is what destroys a dangerous addiction, then who cares? Looking down on vapers is basic and boring. They’re just doing the best they can, and are actually a less toxic presence because they vape—whether or not you want to admit it."|Jené Gutierrez, MA, Journalist]]
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===Robert Sklaroff===
===Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, BS===
*[https://twitter.com/rsklaroff Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/DrScottHadland Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.bumc.bu.edu/care/faculty/scott-hadland/ Photo and Bio]
*[https://insidesources.com/dont-protect-cigarettes-by-banning-far-less-harmful-nicotine-vapor-products/ Source of name - need to research for a quote]
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===Gary E. Swan, PhD===
===Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD===
*2012-2013 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
*[https://med.umn.edu/bio/psychiatry/dorothy-hatsukami Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/KimMurrayTPA/status/1526656765751963648 Quote Source]
*1999-2000 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Sheila Vakharia, PhD MSW===
 
*[https://sheilavakharia.com/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/MyHarmReduction Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/MyHarmReduction/status/1539996789486534657 Quote Source]
===Nan Hayworth, MD===
*[https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/15602#biography Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/NanHayworth/status/1572001216569249794 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NanHayworth Follow on Twitter]
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===[https://twitter.com/GregTHR/status/1620092265170624523 Harlan Vincent (NM)]===
===Dr. Cheryl Healton===
*find quote
*[https://twitter.com/DrCherylHealton Follow on Twitter] / [https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/cheryl-healton Bio / Photo is on her bio page:] / [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-23658-7_4 Quote Source]
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*“I think we really need to consider making that product [e-cigarettes] more accessible to individuals so that they may choose to use that product in lieu of smoking”
Founding President and CEO of American Legacy Foundation (created from MSA Funds, now known as the Truth Initiative);
Dean of School of Global Public Health and Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, NYU School of Global Public Health;
Founding chair of the Public Health Practice Council of the Association of Schools of Public Health;
Serves on the National Board of Public Health Examiners, the Betty Ford Institute, Lung Cancer Alliance, Board of Directors at the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and the Board of Directors at HealthRight International.
Tobacco Harm Reduction Quote: [http://vimeo.com/557522524 E-cigarette Summit 2021]
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://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/legacy-begins-national-search-for-next-president-and-chief-executive-officer-173289731.html Retirement from American Legacy (now Truth)]
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===Amy Faith Ho, MD===
*[https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/30/harm-reduction-health-care/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/amyfaithho Follow on Twitter] / [https://amyfaithho.com/about/ Photo and Bio]
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[[file:US Amy Faith Ho MD.png|center|alt=Amy Faith Ho, MD: "Chained by practicality, physicians don’t have the luxury of shooting for the impossibility of no harm. It’s time for us to embrace, on all topics — sex, drugs, smoking, etc. — harm reduction."|Amy Faith Ho, MD]]
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===Matthew Holman, PhD===
*[https://www.e-cigarette-summit.us.com/speaker/matthew-r-holman/ Photo Source] / [https://www.chron.com/opinion/article/commentary-17602245.php Quote Source]
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[[file:US Matt Holman PHD.png|center]]
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===Chris Howard, JD===
*[https://twitter.com/VaporLawyer Follow on Twitter]
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===Angela Janis, MD, DFAPA===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-janis-90b20977/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrAngelaJanis Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/DrAngelaJanis/status/1197242933990305793 Quote Source]
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[[file:US Angela Janis, MD, DFAPA.png|center]]
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===Matthew Wayne Johnson, Ph.D.===
*[https://filtermag.org/nicotine-drug-prohibition-tobacco-harm-reduction/ Quote] / [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/matthew-johnson Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Drug_Researcher Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:US Matthew Johnson PhD.png|center]]
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===Senator Ron Johnson===
*Wisconsin
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===Peter Killeen PhD===
*[https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/56114 Bio] / [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/health-studies/2014-10-24_nicotine-addiction.html Photo Source] / [https://emerituscollege.asu.edu/sites/default/files/ecdw/EVoice21/killeen21.html Quote Source]
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[[file:US Peter Killeen.png|center]]
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===Brian King===
*[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.16296 Quote Source]
 
===Jaron Hoani King===
*[https://twitter.com/_JHKing Follow on Twitter]
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===Bethea A Kleykamp, MA, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethea-annie-kleykamp-ma-phd-57505128 Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/akleykamp Follow on Twitter]
*COI: I currently have no conflicts of interest with respect to tobacco, vaping or pharmaceutical industries. From May 2014 to September 2018, I provided harm reduction consulting services to an e-cigarette company (NJOY) and a tobacco company (RJ Reynolds) through my work at Pinney Associates.
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[[file:US Annie Kleykamp PhD.png|center]]
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===Robin Koval===
*[https://www.prevention.com/health/a24233519/is-vaping-bad-for-you/ Quote Source] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230122062253/https://twitter.com/robinkoval Photo] / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Koval Bio]
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[[file:US Robin Koval.png|center]]
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===[https://www.huffpost.com/author/lynn-t-kozlowski-phd Lynn Kozlowski]===
*[https://twitter.com/ltkoz1 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/e-cigarettes_b_4550443 E-cigs vs. Cigs: Cut Through, Cut In, Cut Down, Cut Out]
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===Pritika Kumar R-Street===
*find quote
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===Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA===
*[https://conscienhealth.org/about-ted-kyle-rph-mba/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/ConscienHealth/status/1108696010837159936 Source: Quote] / [https://twitter.com/ConscienHealth Follow on Twitter]
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===Jody Lanard MD===
*[https://twitter.com/EIDGeek Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.psandman.com/index-infec.htm Photo] / [https://www.psandman.com/handouts/AIHA/page66.pdf Bio] / [https://twitter.com/EIDGeek/status/1611183075354107904 Quote Source]
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===Harry A. Lando, PhD===
*2002-2003 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Scott Leischow, PhD===
*2008-2009 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Caryn Lerman, PhD===
*2010-2011 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Alex Liber===
*[https://twitter.com/AlexCLiber Follow on Twitter]
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===Stefani Lord===
*[https://twitter.com/Lord4NM Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/GregTHR/status/1620094046676082688 New Mexico]
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===Michael Madden, MD===
*[https://triblive.com/opinion/dr-michael-madden-clearing-the-air-about-youth-vaping/ Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-madden-m-d-8373b71b/ Photo and Bio]
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[[File:US Michael Madden MD.png|center|alt=Michael Madden, MD, Former Chief Medical Officer, Gateway Health: "No one wants a child to pick up an e-cigarette, but imprecise rhetoric about the reality of youth use of e-cigarettes misleads both the public and policymakers and results in tragic misunderstandings about one of the most promising tools public health has to help 34 million adults in this country who still smoke. Clear the air. Follow the science. Make tobacco harm reduction work for those who need it."|Michael Madden, MD, Former Chief Medical Officer, Gateway Health]]<br>
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===Robin Mermelstein, Ph.D.===
Distinguished Professor, Liberal Arts and Sciences
Psychology Department
Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy
Co-Director, Center for Clinical and Translational
Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
*2015-2016 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
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===Tom Miller JD===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20220928031914/https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/statement-by-attorney-general-tom-miller-on-electronic-cigarettes Quote source] / [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Tom_Miller Photo and Bio]
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===Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA===
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Murthy Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/1075734966821142529 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/Surgeon%20General Follow on Twitter]
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===Ethan A Nadelmann===
*[https://twitter.com/ethannadelmann Follow on Twitter] / [https://filtermag.org/drug-policy-reform-movement/ Quote Source] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20171017093332/https://drugpolicy.org/staff/ethan-nadelmann-founder Bio] / [https://twitter.com/ethannadelmann/status/857637028883771396 Photo]
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[[file:US Ethan A Nadelmann.png|center|alt=Ethan Nadelmann Founder,  Drug Policy Alliance: “Cigarettes are  truly deadly... if we  can be moving people to a less harmful product, that’s what we should be doing... My fear is, that not only are we taking a major step backwards [in cutting rates of smoking], but we may be at the beginnings of the great new drug war of the 21st century.”|Ethan Nadelmann Founder, Drug Policy Alliance]]
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===Cam Nereim, MD, FAAP===
*[https://health.usf.edu/medicine/pediatrics/directories/cnereim Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrCamNereim Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/DrCamNereim/status/1611211453511483393 Quote Source]
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===Paul Newhouse===
*[https://twitter.com/DrPaulNewhouse Follow on Twitter]
[http://web.archive.org/web/20211008063529/https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/study-finds-nicotine-safe-helps-in-alzheimers-parkinsons/2175396/ Quote source] "It [nicotine] seems very safe even in nonsmokers. In our studies we find it actually reduces blood pressure chronically. And there were no addiction or withdrawal problems, and nobody started smoking cigarettes. The risk of addiction to nicotine alone is virtually nil."
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===Raymond S. Niaura, PhD===
*[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raymond-Niaura Photo] / [https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/raymond-s-niaura Bio] / [https://truthinitiative.org/sites/default/files/media/files/2019/08/ReThinking-Nicotine_0.pdf Quote source]
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[[file:US Raymond S. Niaura, PhD.png|center|alt=Raymond S. Niaura, PhD Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences New York University School of Global Public Health Former Director, Science and Training, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative Former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco: "Tobacco control’s overarching goal is to save lives as rapidly and effectively as possible. This will require open minds to rethink harms of nicotine when it is decoupled from combustible tobacco.  Ideally, to displace smoking, less harmful products would have to be as, or more, appealing.  Regulations and policy initiatives should be aligned so that less harmful products are able to compete and replace smoking as the way to obtain and use nicotine."|Raymond S. Niaura, PhD Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences New York University School of Global Public Health Former Director, Science and Training, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative Former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco]]
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===Joel Nitzkin, MD===
*[https://www.rstreet.org/team/joel-nitzkin/ Bio and photo] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20210618212236/https://2o9ub0417chl2lg6m43em6psi2i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20160406AlaskaLtrTobcLegis-1.pdf Quote Source and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/JoelNitzkin Follow on Twitter]
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===Joe Nocera===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/joenocera/ Photo and Bio] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20191220040415/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-19/u-s-prefers-mass-hysteria-to-sound-policy-on-vaping Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/opinion_joe Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:US Joe Nocera.png|center]]
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===Amy Nyman, MA===
*[https://publichealth.gsu.edu/profile/amy-nyman/ Photo and Bio] / [https://news.gsu.edu/2019/11/20/study-finds-increase-in-number-of-u-s-adults-who-perceive-e-cigarettes-more-harmful-than-traditional-cigarettes/ Quote Source]
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[[file:US Amy Nyman MA.png|center]]
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===Michael Ogden, Phd===
*[https://gtnf.org/mike-ogden Photo Source] / [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/11/07/accurate-information-on-nicotine-to-save-smokers-lives/ Quote Source]
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[[file:US Michael Ogden PhD.png|center]]
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===Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D.===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.drcherylolson.com/bio/ Bio and Photo] /
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[[file:US Cheryl K Olson.png|center]]
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===Jason Osborne===
*[https://www.facebook.com/osborne4nh/posts/2431511483739590 Photo and Quote Source]
*Disclosure: [https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/rep-jason-osborne-nh-should-not-tax-harm-reduction/article_d5e0b30a-5c65-5b4c-9d51-a0e5fb8dfa4b.html Rep. Osborne used vapor technology to quit smoking]
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[[file:US Jason Osborne.png|center]]
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===Laura Leigh Oyler===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-leigh-oyler-70746145/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/RzbkRedMosquito/status/1555016723753046018 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/thegtnf/status/1577282403080380417 Example - children begging parents to smoke]
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===Amanda Palmer, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/AmandaPalmerPhD Follow on Twitter] / [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/FacultyDirectory/Palmer-Amanda Photo and Bio] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20230114130120/https://twitter.com/AmandaPalmerPhD/status/1378049670572822532 Quote Source]
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[[file:US Amanda Palmer PhD.png|center]]
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===[https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5105003/ Tommy J Payne, JD]===
*[https://collectio.ecu.edu/chronicles/People/Tommy-Joe-Payne Bio]
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===Kenneth A. Perkins, PhD===
*2001-2002 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Michael F. Pesko, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/mikepesko Follow on Twitter] / Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source of Quote]
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[[file:US Michael Pesko PhD.png|center]]
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===Carl V. Phillips, MPP, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/carlvphillips Follow on Twitter] / [https://antithrlies.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/phillips-cv-aug2018.pdf Bio 1] and [https://antithrlies.com/about-cvphillips/ Bio 2] / [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776004/ Quote Source]
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===Ovide Pomerleau, PHD===
*[https://www.umich-nicotine-lab.org/about-dr-ovide-pomerleau.html Bio and Photo]
*1995-1995 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Helen Redmond, LCSW===
*[https://twitter.com/aftariak Follow on Twitter] / [https://filtermag.org/author/helen-redmond/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/aftariak/status/1504184907312074752 Quote]
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[[file:US Helen Redmond.png|center]]
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===Vaughan Rees, PhD===
*[https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/vaughan-rees/ Bio and Photo] / [https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/MJ20p16.shtml Quote Source]
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[[file:US Vaughan Rees PhD 2.png|center]]
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===Nancy A. Rigotti, MD===
*2003-2004 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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===Dr. Brad Rodu===
*[https://twitter.com/BradRodu Follow on Twitter]
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===Jed Rose (Title?)===
*[https://roseresearchcenter.com/dr-jed-rose/ Bio]
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===Veronique de Rugy, PhD===
*[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/anti-vaping-scare-tactics-and-cigarette-sales/ Quote] / [https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/veronique-de-rugy Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/veroderugy Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:US Veronique de Rugy, PhD.png|center]]
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===Sally Satel===
*[https://twitter.com/slsatel Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.aei.org/articles/fighting-the-opioid-epidemic-a-qa-with-sally-satel/ Photo] / [https://www.aei.org/profile/sally-satel/ Bio] / [https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-e-cigarette-revolution-that-wasn%E2%80%99t Quote Source]
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[[file:US Sally Satel.png|center|alt=Sally Satel, MD: "...public-health institutions that promote harm-reduction strategies to users of other drugs, are reluctant, if not hostile, to extending the same forbearance to smokers. This paradox is rooted in the anti-tobacco movement, which has, along with irresponsible actions by public-health institutions, derailed the vaping revolution."|Sally Satel, MD]]
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===Steven A Schroeder, MD===
*Photo: E-Cig Summit 2020 / [https://history.library.ucsf.edu/schroeder.html Bio] / [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/juul-ban.html Quote Source]
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===John Seffrin, MD, PhD===
*[https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/image/galleries/07bf9f5b-4e71-47ab-b776-e19380c662ad/John%20R.%20Seffrin.JPG Photo] / [https://www.giantsofcancercare.com/recipients/2014/20 Bio #1] / [https://www.upstate.edu/news/articles/2014/0506-barbara-resnick-phd-and-john-r-seffrin-phd-to-receive-honorary-degrees.php Bio #2] / [https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_1/ Quote Source #1] /  [https://www.tobaccoreform.org/nasem-report-benefits-0f-e-cigarettes-and-harm-reduction-products-vs-combustible-cigarettes/ Quote Source #2]
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[[file:US John Seffrin, MD, PhD.png|center|alt=John Seffrin, MD, PhD: "Technologies/alternatives exist today that can help people quit smoking or at least reduce significantly their consumption of burned tobacco, which is what kills them. After fighting the tobacco epidemic for over 5 decades, we now have proven harm reduction methods to help us avoid a carnage in otherwise preventable deaths."|John Seffrin, MD, PhD]]
<br>
 
===Arielle Selya, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/ArielleSelya Follow on Twitter] / [https://research.sanfordhealth.org/researchers-and-labs/selya-lab Bio #1] /  [https://www.pinneyassociates.com/team/arielle-selya-phd/ Bio #2 and photo] / [https://twitter.com/ArielleSelya/status/1585715115080368128 Quote Source]
*Disclosures: Academic turned consultant. Her work at Pinney Associations includes doing research for JUUL labs.
<br>
[[file:US Arielle Selya, PhD.png|center|alt=Arielle Selya, PhD Scientist, Pinney Associates, Inc : "“Triangulating” across different types of research  all support the story that e-cigarettes  are displacing cigarettes."|Arielle Selya, PhD Scientist, Pinney Associates, Inc.]]
<br>
 
===Michael Siegel===
*[https://twitter.com/mbsiegel Follow on Twitter]
Visiting Professor,
Department of Public Health and Community
Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
 
===Robert Sklaroff===
*[https://twitter.com/rsklaroff Follow on Twitter]
*[https://insidesources.com/dont-protect-cigarettes-by-banning-far-less-harmful-nicotine-vapor-products/ Source of name - need to research for a quote]
<br>
<br>
 
===Gary E. Swan, PhD===
*2012-2013 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
<br>
<br>
===Maia Szalavitz===
*[https://maiasz.com/bio/ Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/maiasz Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/maiasz/status/1248410440767397898 Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:US Maia Szalavitz.png|center|alt=Maia Szalavitz, Award-winning neuroscience journalist: "Forcing people to quit often drives them underground, to more dangerous behavior, not less. Vaping is less harmful than smoking. If you try to eliminate harm, not reduce it, it can backfire."|Maia Szalavitz, Award-winning neuroscience journalist]]
<br>
===Benjamin Toll, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/bentollphd Follow on Twitter] / [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/FacultyDirectory/Toll-Benjamin Photo and Bio] / [https://web.musc.edu/about/news-center/2023/08/15/many-adults-who-smoke-cigarettes-wrongly-think-that-vaping-is-worse-for-them Quote Source]
<br>
===Sheila Vakharia, PhD MSW===
*[https://sheilavakharia.com/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/MyHarmReduction Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/MyHarmReduction/status/1539996789486534657 Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:US Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW.png|center]]
<br>
 
===[https://twitter.com/GregTHR/status/1620092265170624523 Harlan Vincent (NM)]===
*find quote
<br>
 
===Nora D Volkow, MD===
*[https://vaping.org/nida-director-nora-volkow-acknowledges-benefits-of-vaping/ Quote Source] / [https://nida.nih.gov/about-nida/directors-page/biography-dr-nora-volkow Photo and Bio]
<br>
[[file:US Nora D Volkow, MD.png|center|alt=Nora D Volkow, MD Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health: "...electronic cigarettes offer an alternative delivery for nicotine [for] people who cannot stop smoking. And in the process, the European data has shown that actually there are benefits."|Nora D Volkow, MD Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health]]
<br>
 
===Carrie Wade, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/CarrieLWade Follow on Twitter]
*(Disclosures)
<br>
<br>
 
===Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman, MD===
*[https://twitter.com/DrSarahWakeman Follow on Twitter] / [https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/15975 Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrSarahWakeman/status/1173215677529886722 Quote source]
<br>
[[file:US Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman, MD.png|center|alt=Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School:"Rather than fear mongering and blanket vaping opposition how about we have smarter, more thoughtful regulation that doesn’t fall prey to Prohibitionist mindsets which encourage homemade, mason-jar crafted vaping liquids?"|Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School]]
<br>
 
===Thomas J. Walters, MD===
*[https://www.rochesterregional.org/physician-directory/w/walters-thomas Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/thomasjwwalters Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/thomasjwwalters/status/1325248054916767745 Quote source]
<br>
[[file:US Thomas Walters MD.png|center|alt=Thomas J. Walters, MD: "Other countries use vaped nicotine for smoking cessation.  It's wise to learn from other cultures."|Thomas J. Walters, MD]]
<br>
===Kenneth Warner, PhD===
*[http://investigatorawards.org/investigators/kenneth-warner.html Bio and Photo] / [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 Quote 1 Source] and [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote 2 Source]
<br>
[[file:US Kenneth Warner PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Craig Weiss, JD===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-weiss-9890127/ Photo and Bio] / [https://nation.time.com/2013/12/16/regulating-e-cigarettes-could-have-unintended-consequences/ Quote Source]
*Former CEO NJOY USA (Electronic Cigarette Manufacturer)
<br>
[[file:US Craig Weiss, JD.png|center|alt=Craig Weiss, JD, Former CEO NJOY: "If you make it just as inconvenient and expensive to smoke an electronic cigarette as a Marlboro, people are going to keep smoking Marlboros. Is that really the unintended consequence they want? To keep them smoking? Because that is what they are doing and we know the consequence of that is people are going to die a painful and early death."|Craig Weiss, JD, Former CEO NJOY]]
<br>
 
===Daniel Wikler, Ph.D.===
*need to find quote
<br>
<br>
 
===Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSc===
*[https://tobaccoreporter.com/2021/02/01/wake-up-call/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/swimdaily Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-yach-53369261/ Photo] / [http://thevitalityinstitute.org/people/derek-yach/ Bio]
<br>
[[file:US Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSc.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP===
*[https://twitter.com/clairezagorski Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/clairezagorski/status/1641208698084237314 Photo and Quote Source] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairezagorski/ Bio]
<br>
[[file:US Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP.png|center]]
<br>
===Mitch Zeller, JD===
[https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/about-center-tobacco-products-ctp/mitch-zeller Bio] / [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/our-watch-fda-supports-retailers-keeping-tobacco-out-youths-hands Photo Source] / [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-insight/fda-insight-e-cigarettes-and-national-youth-tobacco-survey Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:US Mitch Zeller JD.png|center]]
<br>
 
='''Venezuela'''=
 
 
===Dr Ali M Ayubi MD, MS, PhD.===
Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Addictions and Professor of Pharmacology, Behavioral Sciences and Addictions Medical University of the Caribbean Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Addiction Diseases of the University of Zulia.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Natasha A. de Herrera, PhD===
Clinical Psychology, Centro Medico Docente la Trinidad, Psychiatric Unit, Smoking Cessation Clinic, Caracas
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
 
='''Statements by Multiple Parties'''=
 
 
===2021: [https://clivebates.com/one-hundred-specialists-call-for-who-to-change-stance-on-tobacco-harm-reduction/ One hundred specialists call for WHO to change its hostile stance on tobacco harm reduction - new letter to FCTC delegates published]===
<br>
===2021: [https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntab148/6322566 Reappraising Choice in Addiction: Novel Conceptualizations and Treatments for Tobacco Use Disorder]===
<br>
===2021: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMJ_JiqyiEa-bpcG4Ev7XyCROSt9k8RM/view 75 Tobacco Control experts ask CDC to change the name of EVALI]===
<br>
===2019: [https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/st_bates_sweanor_vaping_2019.pdf Testimony for New York Senate hearing on vaping safety - Clive Bates and David Sweanor ]===
<br>
===2018: [https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Letter from seventy-two specialists in nicotine science, policy and practice]===
<br>
===????: [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Statement by 28 Medical Professionals in Latin America]===
<br>
 
=Suggestions to add to this page=
 
===2023: [https://english.kontan.co.id/news/scientific-evidence-should-suggest-a-middle-way Scientific Evidence Should Suggest a Middle Way]===
 
===2023: [https://www.bsperio.org.uk/news/is-vaping-harmful-to-oral-health Is vaping harmful to oral health?]===
 
===2023: [https://twitter.com/drjosephnemeth/status/1729587364962435235 Joseph Nemeth, DDS]===
 
===2023: [https://www-latribune-fr.translate.goog/opinions/tribunes/lutte-contre-les-addictions-le-parlement-opte-enfin-pour-un-pragmatisme-scientifique-982219.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fi&_x_tr_pto=wapp Fight against addictions: parliament (finally) opts for scientific pragmatism!]===
*Signatories:
 
Dr  William Lowenstein,  Addictologist President SoS Addiction
Dr Imane Kendili, Addictologist Psychiatrist President of African Global Health
Dr Alain Tolédano, Oncologist, radiotherapist, President of the Rafael Levallois-Perret Institute
Dr Jean-Michel Delile, President of the Addiction Federation
Marie Josée Augé-Caumon, pharmacist - co-partner of the Health-Addictions group, CESE report on tobacco and alcohol risk reduction, part of CAARUD
Dr Jerôme Palazzolo, Psychiatrist Addictologist Nice
Dr Hany Neamatalla, Cardiologist Paris Pompidou, Senator in Egypt
Professor Gabriel Malka , Head of the Health Center at Mohammed VI University - Morocco
Professor Chetty Morgan, Chairman of IPA-Foundation - USA
Dr Jean-Pierre Couteron,  Addictologist Paris
Jean-Francois Narbonne , Toxicologist - Founder of the Food Toxicology Laboratory - Bordeaux University
Dr Bertrand Lebeau Leibovici, Addictologist
Jennifer Oses, Ecotoxicologist
Dr Michael Bohbot , General Practitioner
Dr Vittorio Bacchetta, General practitioner
Professor Redouane Rabii, National Order Certified Urologist · Professor at the University of Medicine of Casablanca
Dr Renaud David , Psychiatrist
Dr Nathaniel Scher, Radiotherapist Oncologist
Dr Pierre Guedj , Cardiologist
Michael Stora , Psychoanalyst
Professor Stéphane Mouly, Internal medicine
Dr Pierre Rouzaud, tobacco specialist, Toulouse
Professor Idrissi Hamza, Resuscitator Anesthetist
Dr Serigne-Magueye Gueye, Professor of Urology at University Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal and Chair of Urology, Director general of Campus Franco-Sénégalais
Dr Benjelloun Faycal, Opthamologist
 
===2023: [https://english.kontan.co.id/news/scientific-evidence-should-suggest-a-middle-way Scientific Evidence Should Suggest a Middle Way]===
 
===2021: [https://www.sovape.fr/appel-medecins-opportunite-vapotage-lutte-contre-le-cancer/ SOVAPE 100+ doctors]===


===Nora Volkow (Title?)===
===[https://www.amny.com/opinion/tobacco-policy-new-york-looking-alternative/ Op-Ed | Tobacco policy in New York should help those looking for an alternative]===
*[https://vaping.org/nida-director-nora-volkow-acknowledges-benefits-of-vaping/ Quote Source]
<br>
<br>


===Carrie Wade, PhD===
===[https://vapers-fi.translate.goog/2021/02/vetoomus-suomen-europarlamentaarikoille-harm-reduction-mallin-huomioimiseksi-eun-syovantorjuntasuunnitelmassa/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fi&_x_tr_pto=wapp Finland]===
*[https://twitter.com/CarrieLWade Follow on Twitter]
*(Disclosures)
<br>
<br>


===Kenneth Warner, PhD===
===[https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2023/01/statement-from-the-minister-of-health-and-the-minister-of-mental-health-and-addictions-and-associate-minister-of-health-on-national-non-smoking-week.html Minister Duclos and Minister Bennett released a joint statement to mark National Non-Smoking Week]===
*[http://investigatorawards.org/investigators/kenneth-warner.html Bio and Photo] / [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 Quote 1 Source] and [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote 2 Source]
<br>
[[file:US Kenneth Warner PhD.png|center]]
<br>


===Daniel Wikler, Ph.D.===
===[https://www.live5news.com/2023/05/11/musc-researching-effects-e-cigarettes-cigarette-smokers/ MUSC researching effects of e-cigarettes on cigarette smokers]===
*need to find quote
<br>
<br>


===Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSc===
===[https://twitter.com/jan_nolta/status/1655614466946654214 Dr. Jan Nolta]===
*[https://tobaccoreporter.com/2021/02/01/wake-up-call/ Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/swimdaily Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-yach-53369261/ Photo] / [http://thevitalityinstitute.org/people/derek-yach/ Bio]
*...if people switch to e-cigs instead of smoking, that’s a far better choice.
<br>
[[file:US Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSc.png|center]]
<br>


===Mitch Zeller, JD===
===[https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1762450/vaping-who-cop-10-summit-smoke-free-comment Britain must stand up to the WHO on vaping to save millions of lives]===
[https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/about-center-tobacco-products-ctp/mitch-zeller Bio] / [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/our-watch-fda-supports-retailers-keeping-tobacco-out-youths-hands Photo Source] / [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-insight/fda-insight-e-cigarettes-and-national-youth-tobacco-survey Quote Source]
*As Vice Chairs of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vaping in Westminster, we have both seen the benefits that vapes offer smokers, allowing them to move away from smoking-related diseases – and death - towards a less harmful alternative.
<br>
*[https://twitter.com/ALewerMBE/status/1650878331401695233 Tweet]
[[file:US Mitch Zeller JD.png|center]]
<br>


='''Venezuela'''=
===[https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-10-31/debates/51F44D0A-88CC-450C-9465-E0DF3E49F013/E-Cigarettes E-cigarettes Volume 667: debated on Thursday 31 October 2019]===


===[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-needs-evidence-based-harm-reduction-strategies-dr-peter-harper/articleshow/99456754.cms India needs evidence-based harm reduction strategies: Dr. Peter Harper]===


===Dr Ali M Ayubi MD, MS, PhD.===
===MP Gareth Johnson===
Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Addictions and Professor of Pharmacology, Behavioral Sciences and Addictions Medical University of the Caribbean Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Addiction Diseases of the University of Zulia.
*[https://twitter.com/TheIBVTA/status/1190253005586780165 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/GarethJohnsonMP Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Natasha A. de Herrera, PhD===
Clinical Psychology, Centro Medico Docente la Trinidad, Psychiatric Unit, Smoking Cessation Clinic, Caracas
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Statements by Multiple Parties'''=
===[https://theconversation.com/how-bad-is-vaping-and-should-it-be-banned-197913 How bad is vaping and should it be banned?]===
*[https://twitter.com/ClancyBrigid Follow on Twitter]


===[https://thepattayanews.com/2023/03/14/thai-committee-on-public-health-suggests-e-cigarette-regulation-and-to-end-ban-on-vaping/ Thai Committee on Public Health Suggests E-cigarette Regulation and to End Ban on Vaping]===


===2021: [https://clivebates.com/one-hundred-specialists-call-for-who-to-change-stance-on-tobacco-harm-reduction/ One hundred specialists call for WHO to change its hostile stance on tobacco harm reduction - new letter to FCTC delegates published]===
===[https://snusforumet.se/en/swedish-mep-johan-nissinen-sweden-should-do-more-for-snus-in-the-eu/ Swedish MEP Johan Nissinen: Sweden should do more for snus in the EU]===
<br>
===2021: [https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntab148/6322566 Reappraising Choice in Addiction: Novel Conceptualizations and Treatments for Tobacco Use Disorder]===
<br>
===2021: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMJ_JiqyiEa-bpcG4Ev7XyCROSt9k8RM/view 75 Tobacco Control experts ask CDC to change the name of EVALI]===
<br>
===2019: [https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/st_bates_sweanor_vaping_2019.pdf Testimony for New York Senate hearing on vaping safety - Clive Bates and David Sweanor ]===
<br>
===2018: [https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Letter from seventy-two specialists in nicotine science, policy and practice]===
<br>
===????: [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Statement by 28 Medical Professionals in Latin America]===
<br>


=Suggestions to add to this page=
===[https://www.coehar.org/women-power-researchers-and-experts-who-changed-the-thr-field%EF%BF%BC/ Women power: researchers and experts who changed the THR field]===


===[https://thrsummitmadrid.org/speakers-biographies/ Spain]===
===[https://thrsummitmadrid.org/speakers-biographies/ Spain]===
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===[https://twitter.com/HumanDelon Delon Human]===
===[https://twitter.com/HumanDelon Delon Human]===


===[https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2017-06-14_snus-appeal-letter.html Professor Dr Michael Kunze]===
===[https://apthrmedia.org/quotations/ APTHRMedia – tobacco harm reduction archive]===
 
===2023 [https://twitter.com/Chitailova/status/1611605850417942528 Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova]===


===2022 [https://clivebates.com/documents/SpainInternationalLetterOct2022EN.pdf LESS HARM: INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION FOR A SMOKE-FREE SPAIN]===
===2022 [https://clivebates.com/documents/SpainInternationalLetterOct2022EN.pdf LESS HARM: INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION FOR A SMOKE-FREE SPAIN]===
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===[https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/07/21/news/national/doctors-scientists-ask-marcos-to-sign-vape-bill/1851683/amp Doctors, scientists ask Marcos to sign vape bill]===
===[https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/07/21/news/national/doctors-scientists-ask-marcos-to-sign-vape-bill/1851683/amp Doctors, scientists ask Marcos to sign vape bill]===
===[https://twitter.com/vapeindia/status/1535846093161897984 French Prime Minister]===


===Maybe organization, too? [https://sante-respiratoire.com/sevrage-tabagique-vape-ou-pas-vape/ SMOKING CESSATION: VAPE OR NOT VAPE?]===
===Maybe organization, too? [https://sante-respiratoire.com/sevrage-tabagique-vape-ou-pas-vape/ SMOKING CESSATION: VAPE OR NOT VAPE?]===
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===[https://www.nosmokesummit.org/2020/10/01/thr-in-low-and-middle-income-countries/ More names to research for positive statements]===
===[https://www.nosmokesummit.org/2020/10/01/thr-in-low-and-middle-income-countries/ More names to research for positive statements]===
===Jaron Hoani King===
===Pritika Kumar R-Street===


===[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from  expert stakeholders]===
===[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from  expert stakeholders]===

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Statements From Experts


Scientists, Professors, Medical Professionals, Tobacco Control and Public Health Leaders, along with Lawmakers and Investigative Journalists are speaking out in support of adult use of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) products to help people quit smoking and to prevent relapse.



Afghanistan

Attaullah Ahmadi

  • notes from an email
  • Attaullah Ahmadi is a Medical Doctor from Afghanistan. He is currently pursuing his MPH with a focus on Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (EHESP) in France Attaullah Ahmadi is the senior advisor to Global Health Focus (GHF), a network of academics and researchers who seek to achieve health for all. He is also a member at Youth Editorial Board of Public Health Challenges (a Wiley journal). He has served as the GHF Director of Research for Asia and also as a Research Associate at the Medical Research Center of Kateb University. Attaullah Ahmadi seeks to address health inequities and has published many scientific papers on various health topics in developing countries including Afghanistan, analyzing their health systems and highlighting the challenges they face.


Argentina

Dra. Marta Angueira, Cardiologist

  • Source
  • "Cigarettes have the serious problem that in addition to nicotine, the smoke contains a lot of carcinogens, it contains carbon monoxide, ammonia, this means that what is really very harmful is precisely the smoke. The idea is that these people who are in these conditions, propose that they start using a substitute for cigarettes with the condition that it does less damage, for that there are the chewing gums that have been used for a long time, the patches, there are nasal sprays that contain only nicotine. Electronic cigarettes are another alternative since it is 95% less harmful than the combustion cigarette".



Dr. Guillermo Eduardo Harvey

Oncological Surgeon. Professor of the first chair of Surgery UNNE. Member of the Argentine Academy of Medicine.



Silvia Inchaurraga. PHD.

psychologist. Director of the Center for Advanced Studies on drug addiction and AIDS at the National University of Rosario.



Milton Klun

Pharmacist, Universidad Nacional del Sur.



Dr. Diego Verrastro


Argentina Dr. Diego Verrastro "Quitting smoking can be hard. Vaping is one more way to quit smoking by getting nicotine with fewer toxins that come from the combustion of tobacco. You can be social, spend less, and once you quit, you'll feel better about it"
Argentina Dr. Diego Verrastro


Australia

Professor Amanda Baker

Quote Source / Photo and Bio


Professor Billie Bonevski

Source of neame

Associate Professor Yvonne Bonomo

Source of neame

Ron Borland PhD

Quote Source / Bio and Photo

Ron Borland PhD "The good intentions of many in tobacco control of trying to limit low toxin alternatives to smoking are in all likelihood paving the way to the hell of prolonging the epidemic of smoking- caused harm."
Ron Borland PhD


Stephen Bright, PhD

Photo and Bio / Quote Source / Follow on Twitter


Associate Professor Matthew Browne

Source of name

Dr Andrew Byrne

Photo and Bio / Source: Letter Signatory


Professor David Castle

Photo and Bio / Quote Source


Professor Kate Conigrave

Photo and Bio / Follow on Twitter / Quote 1 Source and Quote 2 Source


Dr Jon Cook

Source of name

Dr Karen Counter

Source of name

Professor Nick Crofts AM

Source of name

Professor Richard (Ric) Day AM

Source of name

Professor Paul Dietze

Source of name

Professor Kate Dolan

Source of name

Professor Adrian Dunlop

Source of name

Conjoint Associate Professor Nadine Ezard

Source of name

Coral Gartner, PhD

Coral Gartner, PhD, School of Public Health Faculty of Medicine Queensland University: "Banning non-therapeutic nicotine vaping products is ethically problematic, because it denies addicted smokers access to a less harmful alternative product and an additional means of quitting smoking."
Coral Gartner, PhD


Professor Charles Gilks

Source of name

Rohan Glasgow

Source of name

Dr Robert Graham

Source of name

Dr Ashleigh Guillaumier

Photo and Bio / Quote Source / Follow on Twitter


Wayne Hall, PHD

Quote Source / Bio and Photo

Wayne Hall PhD "A MORE BALANCED AND SENSIBLE PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY WOULD ALLOW [PEOPLE WHO SMOKE] TO ACCESS E-CIGARETTES IN WAYS THAT MINIMISE YOUTH UPTAKE AND MAXIMISE THE POTENTIAL FOR E-CIGARETTES TO ELIMINATE THE GLOBAL USE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS"
Wayne Hall PhD


Dr David Helliwell

Source of name

Senator Hollie Hughes

Follow on Twitter

Dr William Huang

Source of name

Dr David Jacka

Source of name

Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Keane

Source of name

Dr Joe Kosterich

Source of name

Rebecca Lang

Source of name

Nicole Lee, PhD

Follow on Twitter / Quote Source / Bio

Nicole Lee, PhD Adjunct Professor, National Drug Research Institute Director, 360Edge: "The question is HOW they are regulated. ‘Regulation’ through prescription is not working and has enhanced the massive black market. If a policy is broken we need to fix it. I don’t have a bias, I have a strong view based on the evidence. I’m not pro vaping. I’m pro harm reduction."
Nicole Lee, PhD Adjunct Professor, National Drug Research Institute Director, 360Edge


Professor Nicholas Lintzeris

Source of name

Dr Michael Lowy

Source of name

Dr Brad Mackay

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Dr Annie Madden AO

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Professor Lisa Maher AM

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Associate Professor Victoria Manning

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Dr Kristen McCarter

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Associate Professor Mike McDonough

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Colin Mendelsohn, MB BS

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Dr Colin Mendelsohn "Vaping can be used as a short term quitting aid or as a long-term strategy to avoid going back to smoking and is at least 95% safer than smoking"
Dr Colin Mendelsohn


Dr David Outridge

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Dr Peter Parry

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Fiona Patten MP

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Mr Garth Popple

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Evert Rauwendaal

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Professor Robyn Richmond

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Professor Alison Ritter AO FASSA

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Dr Fares Samara

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Professor Julian Savulescu

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Dr Catherine Silsbury

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Kathryn Steadman, PhD

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Kathryn Steadman, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland: "The greater barriers to accessing NVPs [nicotine vapor products] than cigarettes are a strong disincentive to switching from cigarettes to NVPs."
Kathryn Steadman, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland


Dr Penelope Truman

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Dr Ingrid van Beek AM

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Dr Thomas Vandeleur

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Dr Brian Walker MLC

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Dr Brian Walker "1. Cigs have NOT been beaten YET. 2. Vaping has been proven to help reduce smoking. 3. Banning vapes is an excellent way of preventing smoking cessation success"
Dr Brian Walker


Judith Watt

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Professor Ian Webster AO

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Ian Webster AO

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Dr Megan Weir

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Associate Professor Martin Weltman

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Associate Professor Scott Wilson

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Dr. Alex Wodak AM

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Dr Alex Wodak AM "Opposition to reduced risk nicotine options inevitably protects the smoking of tobacco which is responsible for the deaths of over half of long term smokers. Vaping is now not only the world's most popular stop smoking aid, but the most effective"
Dr Alex Wodak AM


Austria

Ernest Groman, MD


Ernest Groman MD "The data show the abstinence approach is inadequate. The soulution for smokers is to switch to less harmful alternatives"
Ernest Groman MD


Professor Michael Kunze, MD


Professor Michael Kunze, MD, Medical University Vienna, Center for Public Health: "One has to acknowledge, nicotine is a very widely used psychoactive drug, and itself not very harmful to human health as far as the risk for cardiovascular diseases or cancer is concerned. One additional issue for the future would be a need to provide nicotine in the most harmless way to people who do not want or cannot yet stop smoking. "
Professor Michael Kunze, MD, Medical University Vienna, Center for Public Health


Bernhard-Michael Mayer, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Austria


Belgium

Karolien Adriaens, PhD


Karolien Adriaens PhD Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium "Banning flavoured e-cigarettes will discourage smokers from switching, witch leads to the unintended consequences of continuous and prolonged smoking"
Karolien Adriaens


Frank Baeyens, PhD


Frank Baeyens PhD Professor of Psychology, KU Leuven Belgium "Vaping is significantly less harmful than smoking" "E-cigarettes are a valuble tool for many smokers to help them quit smoking" "Regular vaping in non smokeres is rare and there is no evidence of a 'gateway effect' from vaping to smoking" "WHO's stance on THR is anti scientific, morally reprehensible and diametrically opposed to it's primary mission: it costs lives rather than saving them"
Frank Baeyens


Brazil

Silvia Cazenave. PHD.

PHD in Toxicology and Master in Toxicological Analysis.



Monica Gorgulho

Clinical psychology. Masters in Social Psychology. University of São Paulo, Brazil. Harm Reduction Specialist.



Canada

Michael Chaiton



Patrick Fafard, PhD

Full Professor Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Ottawa



Kellie Ann Forbes BScN


Kellie Ann Forbes, BScN, Founding member of VAEP: "I am satisfied that vaping is not only exceedingly less harmful than smoking but it is an appealing alternative to current smokers and is preventing future smokers."
Kellie Ann Forbes, BScN, Founding member of VAEP


Amelia Howard, Sociologist



Ian Irvine, PhD


Ian Irvine PhD Professor of Economics at Concordia University, research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute "The federal government is currently proposing to place very severe restrictions on the vaping market in the form of nicotine content limits and flavour bans. It should be wary of killing the cigarette extinguishing golden goose."
Ian Irvine PhD


Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)


Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C) "In recent years electronic cigarettes have emerged as a valid alternative to tobacco cigarettes to reduce the harmful effects of smoking on health."
Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)


Chris Lalonde, PhD


Chris Lalonde PhD "To the extent that you make vaping less accessible, less affordable, then you're going to prevent the very people who are the most likely to benefit from it from accessing it. What kind of government and what kind of science, would support that? It turns out we're living it."
Chris Lalonde PhD


Clifford Garfield Mahood, O.C.

Founding Executive Director (1976-2012) Non-Smokers’ Rights Association Toronto Canada



Dr John Oyston



James (Jim) Rankin

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David Sweanor, JD

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David Sweanor JD, Policy and Ethics Ajdunct Proffesor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa "Ensuring that a range of low-risk alternatives are not only on the market but have regulatory and tax advantages over cigarettes has the potential to transform public health. We have long known people smoke for nicotine but die from the smoke. Cigarette smoking is a public health catastrophe that can be massively reduced through science and technology if policies can be oriented toward replacing rather than protecting the cigarette business"
David Sweanor JD


Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh


Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh, President Aboriginal Pharmacists Association of Canada: "My concern is that harm reduction tools and awareness about alternatives to cigarette use are not available to First Nations" "When given the option to reduce the incidences of smoking , I believe we can substantially reduce overall health risks to First Nations – especially at a time when our people are more vulnerable to harm than the majority of non-First Nations"
Neda Debassige Toeg BSP RPh, President Aboriginal Pharmacists Association of Canada


Mark Tyndall MD ScD FRCPC


Mark Tyndall, Founder of My Safe Society “Around 2012 I heard about vaping. This was the very definition of harm reduction: taking an inherently risky activity and making it way less risky. … The amazing thing about vaping was that for many people, it was even more attractive and satisfying than cigarettes.” “Yet eight years later, who would have thought that throwing a lifeline to people who smoke cigarettes would be so contentious? It should have been a slam-dunk. By now, leading public health authorities around the world should have launched global campaigns to rid the world of cigarettes through vaping. But that just hasn’t happened.”
Mark Tyndall, Founder of My Safe Society


Chile

Hernán Prat Martorell, MD, PhD

Professor at the University of Chile. Former Director of the Cardiovascular Department of the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile. Former president of the Chilean Society of Hypertension.



Alejandro Erices Ocampo. PHD

Biochemist – Doctor of Science – Post-doctorate in Neurosciences.



Daniel Kleiman Priewer. MD.

Specialist in Traumatology - Orthopedics. Sports injuries. Joint Preservation and Osteoarthritis.



Colombia

Dr. Ramon Calderon

Brazil, Colombia, Spain and Mexico - Doctor in medicine. Plastic Surgeon



Dr. Ana Maria Diaz

PhD in Bioethics.



Hugo Caballero Durán, MD

Former president of the Colombian Society of Pneumology. Former Clinical Scientific Director of Marly Clinic. Director of the Pneumology and Respiratory Therapy Service, Marly Clinic Bogotá, Colombia



Costa Rica

Dr. Randall Rodríguez Obando.

Doctor in medicine. Specialist in Harm Reduction in patients with HIV.



Czech Republic

Pavel Bém MD

Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy Head of the Clinical Department, Adictology Clinic, Charles University Former Mayor of Prague Member of The National Drug Commission Office of the Government of the Czech Republic


Eva Králíková, MD

Professor Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Centre for Tobacco-Dependence First Faculty of Medicine and General Hospital Charles University Prague Czech Republic


Democratic Republic of the Congo

Samuel Mukandi, BA


Samuel Mukandi, BA, Managing Director, Tradelines Group. Chairman Of The Board, Tobacco Harm Reduction DRC: "Vapor technology is one of the most significant public health innovations of the century, and to conflate it with deadly Tobacco products is entirely inappropriate and irresponsible."
Samuel Mukandi, BA, Managing Director, Tradelines Group. Chairman Of The Board, Tobacco Harm Reduction DRC


Ecuador

Dr. Pablo Gallo

Ecuador and Spain - Doctor of Medicine and vascular surgeon specialized in the study and treatment of both arterial pathology and venous pathology and, above all, pelvic venous pathology



César Paz y Miño, MD, PhD

Director, Centro de Investigacion Genética y Genómica and Specialist in Genetics and Human Molecular Biology Universidad UTE Quito, Ecuador



Tanya Soria. MD.

Clinical Oncologist.



Enrique Teran, MD, PhD

Professor College of Health Sciences - Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine Academy of Science of Ecuador Ecuador



Francisco E. Urrestra. MD.

Medical Director Hospital Clinica Metropolitana. Ibarra.



El Salvador

Dr. Edward Wollants

Internist and nutritionist.



England/(UK)

Adam Afriyie, BSc


Adam Afriyie, BSc, Chair of Parliamentary Office Science and Technology "Around 50% Medical Practitioners didn't know smoking was more harmful than vaping"
Adam Afriyie, BSc, Chair of Parliamentary Office Science and Technology


Sanjay Agrawal, MD, MBChB


Sanjay Agrawal MD, Professor of Respiratory medicine University Leicester, Chair of Royal Collage Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group: "We want to make e-cigarettes attractive to smokers who are trying to quit. That's the point. For many people, adding flavours, and taking away the taste of tobacco is quite helpful"
Sanjay Agrawal MD, Professor of Respiratory medicine University Leicester, Chair of Royal Collage Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group


Deborah Arnott


Deborah Arnott, MBA, CEO ASH-UK “There are people in the public health community who are obsessed by e-cigarettes” "That because there is so much bad publicity about them, people’s understanding about the relative risk of smoking and e-cigarettes is being undermined. The risk is that smokers who could potentially use these as an alternative to smoking are being discouraged, and that’s not a good thing.” "Do you want the tobacco industry to carry on making cigarettes which are highly addictive and kill when used as intended, or do you want them to move to a product which is much nearer licensed nicotine replacement therapy and is unlikely to kill anyone?”
Deborah Arnott, MBA, CEO ASH-UK


Prof Paul Aveyard


Paul Aveyard, PhD FRCP FRCGP FFPH PROFESSOR OF BEHAVIOURAL MEDICINE Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences: "Within a few years, the e-cigarette has taken off and meant that people are using it to stop, or reduce, their smoking in huge numbers. Insofar as you can tell from the data we have, this would appear to be an effective thing to do."
Paul Aveyard, PhD FRCP FRCGP FFPH PROFESSOR OF BEHAVIOURAL MEDICINE Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences


Clive Bates

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John Britton, MD

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John Britton, MD, Director UK Center For Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Professor of Epidemiology University Nottingham "Health policy should be driven by science, not prejudice or dogma. Vaping has already provided an effective gateway out of smoking for millions of people, unequivocally benefiting individual smokers, public health and wider society."
John Britton, MD, Director UK Center For Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Professor of Epidemiology University Nottingham


Leonie Brose, PhD



George Butterworth, BSc


George Butterworth, BSc Policy Manager Cancer Research UK 2014-2022: "...vaping is less harmful than smoking tobacco and can help people to stop smoking..."
George Butterworth, BSc Policy Manager Cancer Research UK 2014-2022


Carolina Garcia Canton

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Hazel Cheeseman, MSc


Hazel Cheeseman, MSc. Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH UK): "Wait. What? I'm almost speechless. Parents [in Australia] seek to replace vaping with the more addictive much much more lethal alternative... smoking. How does this level of misunderstanding come about and how can we guard against it here in the UK?"
Hazel Cheeseman, MSc. Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH UK).


Sharon Cox, PhD



David Crane PhD


David Crane PhD: "There is no good evidence that vaping makes addicts out of people who would not otherwise become so but substantial good evidence that it helps smokers quit. The public health benefits for which are huge."
David Crane PhD


Lynne Dawkins, PhD

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Martin Dockrell




Katherine "Katie" East, PhD

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Jonathan Fell



Floe Foxon, BSc



Suzi Gage



Stuart Griffiths, PhD


Stuart Griffiths, PhD, Director of Research, Services, and Policy, Yorkshire Cancer Research: "When it comes to helping people quit for good, being able to offer vaping products is essential. They are an incredibly effective aid in helping people give up cigarettes.”
Stuart Griffiths, PhD, Director of Research, Services, and Policy, Yorkshire Cancer Research


Peter Hajek, PhD



David Halpern, PhD


David Halpern, PhD, CEO - Behavioural Insights Team: "...we should deliberately seek to make e-cigs widely available, and to use regulation not to ban them but to improve their quality and reliability."
David Halpern, PhD, CEO - Behavioural Insights Team


Jamie Hartmann-Boyce


Dr Richard Holliday

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Benjamin Human

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Sarah Jackson, PhD, MSc



Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD

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Mark Jenkinson MP



Patricia Kovacevic, JD



Sir Norman Lamb

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Rosemary Leonard, MBE, MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, DRCOG

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Nicola Lindson


Martin Machray

Professor Stefan Marciniak

"Current evidence supports vaping as a safer option than smoking, so a switch is better than not switching."

Olivia M Maynard, PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science Bristol Population Health Science Institute MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit Bristol, United Kingdom


Professor Elaine McColl

Dr Andy McEwen

  • National Centre of Smoking Cessation and Training, Dorchester, UK


Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH


Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH President, The Association of Directors of Public Health (UK): "But it seems to me that we have enough of an accumulation of evidence that e-cigarettes are so much safer than tobacco cigarettes, even if we only discuss the levels of emissions of chemicals, that not working with e-cigarettes is to expose people to potentially avoidable harm, and that this is unethical. I feel ethically compelled to find a way of working with e-cigarettes as a public health tool. And the fact that some public health debate has made people – wrongly as the consensus statement says – feel e-cigarettes may even be more harmful than tobacco is something we ought to find shocking and chilling."
Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH President, The Association of Directors of Public Health (UK)


Ann McNeill, PhD



Dr Peter Miller

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Marcus Munafò, PhD

Professor of Biological Psychology and MRC Investigator MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit School of Psychological Science University of Bristol United Kingdom


Dr Kevin Murphy


John Newton, FRCP FFPH FRSPH

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Caitlin Notley, PhD



David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FSB, FMedSci

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Dr Kirstie Soar

  • Centre of Addictive Behaviours Research, London South Bank University, UK


Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan

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Dr Kathryn Scott

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  • "Easy and reliable access to vaping products will give more people in Yorkshire the best chance of quitting for good.”


Lion Shahab, PhD CPsychol AFBPsS

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Erikas Simonavičius, PhD


Professor Gerry Stimson

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Harry Tattan-Birch, MSc

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Robert West, PhD

Professor Emeritus in Health Psychology, University College London


France

Marion Adler, PhD

Smoking Cessation Specialist Hôpital Antoine Béclère Clamart France


Philippe Arvers, MD, PhD

Tobaccologist ans addictologist Université Grenoble Alpes France


Élisabeth Borne, Prime Minister



Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg



Julien Didry



Jacques Le Houezec, PhD



Olivier Véran



Germany

Peter Liese MEP

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Alexander K. Nussbaum, PhD



Dr Ingo Schröder



Dr. F. Artur Schroers



Frank Sitta

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Prof. Dirk Ziebolz



Greece

Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH

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Guatemala

Dr Erick Estrada

Family doctor and surgeon. Focused on preventive medicine



Iceland

G. Karl Snæbjörnsson, MD



India

Dr Nimesh Desai



Aparajeet Kar, MD

Consultant Pulmonology and Critical Care Sir H.N Reliance Foundation Hospital Mumbai India


Dr Kiran Melkote, MBBS, MS



Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD


Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD "Medical professionals need to realise that switching patients who smoke to a healthier alternative like Vaping is the next best thing to smoke cessation, which by itself is a very difficult task. Regulate not Ban."
Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD


Ireland

Dr Garrett McGovern



Italy

Pietro Fiocchi

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Riccardo Polosa



Umberto Tirelli MD

Professor Director, Cancer Center Clinica Mede Sacile


Japan

Naohito Yamaguchi, MD

Chief of Research Division, Saiseikai Research Institute of Health Care and Welfare Former Professor of Public Health, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University


Kenya

Joseph Magero, BBA



Lithuania

Morgana Danielė

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Dr Steven Chow

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Dr Arifin Fii


Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD

Professor of Occupational Safety and Health/Ergonomics Department of Environmental and Occupational Health University Putra Malaysia Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD


Mexico

Ldo. Edgar Caballero

Behavioral psychologist



Dr. Jessica Esquivel Chahin

Doctor at the Institute of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery at Hospital Ángeles Lomas. Expert in diagnosis and management of covid-19 patients. Health sciences teacher.



Dr. Jose Alejandro Chavez

Clinical Cardiologist. Member of the Medical Society of the General Hospital of Mexico. Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. USA. Member of the Mexican Society of Cardiology.



Christian Heinrich Henonin MD

MIPH International Public Health. Medical professor, researcher and health consultant Mexico



Dr. José Manuel Mier



Luz Odette Villegas Pichardo. MD

Internal Medicine. South Medical Hospital. Metropolitan Angeles Hospital.



Roberto A Sussman, PhD



Morocco

Imane Kendili MD



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New Zealand

PM Jacinda Ardern


Robert Beaglehole, MD, DSc

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Ruth Bonita, MPH, PhD, MD (hon)


Julian Buchanan, CPA, DSW, MA, PhD



Chris Bullen, PhD


Marewa Glover, PhD



Deborah Hart LLB



Yolande Jeffares


George Laking, MD, PhD

Chair, End Smoking New Zealand

  • “Smokefree tobacco and nicotine products can displace smoking. Smoking combustible tobacco has the greatest of health burdens, so the point here is to reduce this, regardless of whether a product contains or doesn’t contain tobacco."


Dr Murray Laugesen

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Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, BSc Pharm, B. Chem



Dr Penelope Truman

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Natalie Walker, PhD

Associate Professor of Population Health and Director of the Centre for Addiction Research, National Institute for Health Innovation, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland


Ben Youdan

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Nigeria

ADEBISI Yusuff Adebayo

"Nicotine is not the primary cause of smoking-related diseases, including cancer."

Aishat Alaran

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MPhil Candidate at University of Cambridge. Commonwealth Shared Cambridge Trust Scholar. Public Health Researcher

Norway

Karl E Lund, PhD



Pakistan

Dr Ashar Ahmed

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Peru

Dr Omar Ghiglione

Venezuela, Peru Peripheral Vascular Surgeon.



Philippines

Dr. Rafael R. Castillo



Dr. Fernando Fernandez

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Arleen R. Reyes, DMD, ICD, ICCDE

Past President, Philippine Dental Association Chairman, Commission on Dental Education Asia -Pacific Dental Federation Philippines


Ron Christian G. Sison, MLS(ASCPi), MPH

Assistant Professor Lead Convenor Harm Reduction Alliance of the Philippines Manila Philippines


Poland

Andrzej Sobczak, PhD

Professor Head of Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec Medical University of Silesia Katowice Poland


Romania

Mihaela Răescu Phd



Scotland

Prof Linda Bauld, OBE



Dr. Ehsan Latif

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Christopher Russell, PhD



South Africa

Dr Kgosi Letlape



Solomon Rataemane



South Korea

Young-bum Park, PhD

Professor Department of Economics Hansung University South Korea


Spain

Manuel Linares Abad, PhD



José Mª García Basterrechea, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine University of Murcia Former head, Addiction and Dual Pathology Unit Reina Sofía Hospital. Spain.



Fernando Fernández Bueno, MD

Oncological surgeon at the Hospital Central de la Defensa Gómez Ulla Professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares Madrid Spain



Carmen Escrig, PhD



Miguel de la Guardia PhD

Professor of Analytical Cemistry University of Valencia Spain



Maria del Mar Sangüesa Jareño, MD

Intensive Care Specialist University Hospital of Ceuta, Spain



José David García Muñiz, MD, PhD

Clinical Pharmacology and Internal Medicine Clinical Trials Coordinator, Principal Investigator University Hospital of Ceuta Spain



Jose Miguel Rodriguez (Gonzalez-Moro)



Antonio Sierra, MD, PhD

Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of La Laguna. Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of La Laguna Former General Director of Public Health of the Government of the Canary Islands



Francisco Garcia Sierra, MD.

Head of the Nephrology Service University Hospital of Ceuta Spain



Josep María Ramón Torrell, MD, PhD.

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Barcelona Head of Clinical Prevention Research Group Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institut Head of Tobacco Prevention Service Bellvitge Hospital Barcelona, Spain



Angel González Ureña, PhD

Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry. Complutense University of Madrid



Singapore

Tan Kok Kuan, MD

Medical Director Dr Tan Medical Center Novena Medical Center Singapore


Andrew John da Roza

Psychotherapist - Addictions Promises Health Care Pte. Ltd. Singapore


Sweden

Professor Tony Axéll

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Curt Enzell


KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD



Anders Milton MD, PhD

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Lars Ramström PhD

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Switzerland

Gizelle Baker



Jean-François Etter, PhD

Professor of public health Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva


Moira Gilchrist PhD



Tikki Elka Pang, PhD

Former Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, WHO, Geneva Switzerland


Marina Suvakov

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Tunisia

Fares Mili MD-CTTS- NCTTP

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United Arab Emirates

GOPAL BHATNAGAR, MD


Gopal Bhatnagar, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi. Former Chief of Staff, Trillium Health Centre, Ontario, Canada. Vape Shop Owner: You just don’t victimize smokers twice. You don’t make something that’s hyper-addictive freely available to people and then you victimize them again by saying well you know there’s a technology that has the ability to help you get off this… but we’re going to restrict that.
Gopal Bhatnagar, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi. Former Chief of Staff, Trillium Health Centre, Ontario, Canada. Vape Shop Owner.


Cother Hajat, MBBS PhD FFPH FRCP



United States

David Abrams PhD


David Abrams, PhD, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health: "E-cigarettes are substantially less harmful than burning toxic tobacco. They can help some people who have been unable to quit to switch and save their lives. The science in the last 2-3 years has become incredibly strong. It was the science that drove me to change my mind. I think we've forgotten it's the smoker and potential smoker we're supposed to be helping. They're people too. You can't forget that."
David Abrams, PhD, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health


Jerome Adams, MD, MPH



Jonathan H. Adler, JD


Jonathan H. Adler, JD Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law: "The reality, however, is that vaping products are far-less dangerous than combustible cigarettes, providing consumers with a safer way to consume nicotine and giving smokers a more effective means of quitting..."
Jonathan H. Adler, JD Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law


Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS



Bart Andrews, PhD

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Bart Andrews, PhD, Vice President, Telehealth and Home and Community Services, BHR: "Regardless of whether someone is predestined or not, some will use. That’s why harm reduction tools are incredibly important and why attempts to restrict or criminalize vaping increase harm."
Bart Andrews, PhD, Vice President, Telehealth and Home and Community Services, BHR


Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA


Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA, Director, Center for Critical Public Health: "...ignoring the potential benefits of harm reduction strategies may unintentionally lead to an erosion of trust in tobacco control among some members of the public.”
Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA, Director, Center for Critical Public Health


Alex Azar, JD



David J. K. Balfour, DSc



Scott Ballin, JD


Scott D. Ballin, JD, Health Policy Consultant. Former VP and Legislative Counsel, American Heart Association. Former Chairman of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health (precursor to CTFK): "On the issue of flavorings, any concerns about flavoring and youth initiation should be balanced with ensuring that significantly lower risk products such as cigarettes are consumer acceptable to the millions of smokers looking to quit. This obviously involves flavorings and palatability. Nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) have long been available in a wide variety of flavors..."
Scott D. Ballin, JD, Health Policy Consultant. Former VP and Legislative Counsel, American Heart Association. Former Chairman of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health (precursor to CTFK).


Ronald Bayer, PhD


Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH: "Rejecting e-cigarettes because the tobacco industry will profit from them has the virtue of being uncompromising. But it also means rejecting the evidence and accepting the predictable, deadly toll of cigarette smoking. That’s a virtue, we argue, the world can no longer afford."
Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH.


Neal Benowitz



Aaron Biebert, BS


Aaron Biebert, BS, Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Former President, Clear Medical Solutions: "I believe it is a human right to have the accurate information needed to make personal health decisions about nicotine use as well as access to the safest nicotine-delivery system a person chooses without facing shame, stigma or “sin taxes.” There is a scientific consensus that nicotine vapor products are safer than cigarettes, so I believe they should be available and encouraged."
Aaron Biebert, BS, Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Former President, Clear Medical Solutions.


Chelsea Boyd



Professor Neil Boyd


Neil Boyd, Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University: "For current smokers, vaping is a much preferable alternative to combustion, and should not be discouraged, relative to the smoking of tobacco. Agree with restrictions on marketing to children."
Neil Boyd, Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University


Jeffrey Brandes



Thomas Brandon, PhD


Thomas Brandon, PhD Director, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tobacco Research and Intervention Program: "All of these studies, together with those from other labs, have informed my perspective that e-cigarettes represent the most important change in the landscape of tobacco use during my 36 years in this field. We need to harness this change to maximize the public health benefit from it."
Thomas Brandon, PhD Director, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tobacco Research and Intervention Program


Susan Cameron, MBA



Richard H Carmona MD, MPH, FACS



Representative Julie A. Casimiro



Azim Chowdhury, JD



Gal Cohen, PhD


Gal Cohen, PhD Head of Scientific Affairs, Rose Research Center Former Principal Scientist, JUUL Labs: "The reality we face as a society is that in spite of decades of concerted tobacco control initiatives and the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry, cigarettes are likely not going away soon. E-vapor products offer the most realistic opportunity to displace cigarette use in smokers who have not been able to quit with traditional methods. I predict that e-vapor products will ultimately be understood by the public health community as having a role when used responsibly as second-line harm reduction products for adult smokers."
Gal Cohen, PhD Head of Scientific Affairs, Rose Research Center Former Principal Scientist, JUUL Labs


Ari Cohn, JD


Ari Cohn, JD: "While vaping isn't totally safe (of course, no amount of car driving is totally safe either), it is certainly--on the whole--safer than smoking. And there's evidence that e-cigs are more effective at helping people quit smoking than other options"
Ari Cohn, JD


Suzanne M. Colby, PhD



James Colgrove, PhD, MPH


James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health: "Although some e-cigarette manufacturers have no links to the tobacco industry, Big Tobacco is consuming an ever-greater share of the e-cigarette market. It is hard for public health advocates like us to look favorably on anything the industry wants. But history shows that harm reduction — the doctrine that many risks cannot be eradicated and that efforts are best spent on minimizing the resulting harm — has had an important place in antismoking efforts and suggests that regulation is better than prohibition. If e-cigarettes can reduce, even slightly, the blight of six million tobacco-related deaths a year, trying to force them out of sight is counterproductive."
James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health


Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD, MPH



Brittani Cushman (TPB) spelling?

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Cristine Delnevo, PhD, MPH, FAAHB



David Dobbins, JD, MPH



Clifford E. Douglas, J.D



David L. Eaton PhD


David L. Eaton, PhD, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington: "Evidence suggests that while they're [e-cigarettes] not necessarily without health risks on their own, they are likely to be far less harmful than a conventional cigarette."
David L. Eaton, PhD, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington


Allan Erickson



Michael Eriksen, ScD



Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH


Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH: "Rejecting e-cigarettes because the tobacco industry will profit from them has the virtue of being uncompromising. But it also means rejecting the evidence and accepting the predictable, deadly toll of cigarette smoking. That’s a virtue, we argue, the world can no longer afford."
Ronald Bayer, PhD. Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH.


David S. Fink, PhD, MPH


David S. Fink, PhD, MPH New York State Psychiatric Institute: "Tobacco is the leading cause of premature mortality, so let’s get people off tobacco then, that suggest we take UKs stance on this and move then to vaping, a unquestionably safer method of consumption..."
David S. Fink, PhD, MPH New York State Psychiatric Institute


Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA


Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA Founder & Director University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention:"Twenty individuals in Wisconsin are going to die prematurely [today] of a disease directly caused by their smoking, on average, robbing them of 10 to 15 years of life...vaping is, without a question, less dangerous than cigarette smoking."
Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA Founder & Director University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention


Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr.)


Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-In-Chief, Forbes Media: "Vaping is actually very effective in helping people quit smoking... Attacking vaping with false information and distortions does a deadly disservice to public health."
Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-In-Chief, Forbes Media


Jonathan Foulds PhD



Tom Frieden, MD, MPH

  • Bio #1 / Photo and Bio #2 / Follow on Twitter / Quote source
  • Disclosure: Dr. Tom Frieden is President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives (an initiative housed at Vital Strategies), launched in 2017 with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (Bloomberg Philanthropies is a funder of Vital Strategies.)


Tom Frieden, MD, MPH Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2009 - 2017 Director, Global Health - Bloomberg Philanthropies 2006 - 2009: "For adults who use e-cigarettes and quit using conventional cigarettes completely and forever they [e-cigs] would be a benefit..."
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2009 - 2017 Director, Global Health - Bloomberg Philanthropies 2006 - 2009


Abigail S. Friedman PhD



Stephen F. Gambescia, PhD



Charles A. Gardner, PhD



Rob Gebelhoff, BA


Rob Gebelhoff Assistant Editor, The Washington Post: "If lawmakers insist on taxing e-cigarettes, fine. But then make sure that taxes for traditional tobacco products — including state and local taxes — remain considerably higher. Use the substitution effect to our advantage. The vaping industry is a tempting political target. But the proposed tax on its products is the wrong way to reduce the scourge of smoking."
Rob Gebelhoff Assistant Editor, The Washington Post


Karen K Gerlach, PhD, MPH



Joe Gitchell



Thomas J. Glynn, PhD

Adjunct Lecturer Prevention Research Center School of Medicine, Stanford University Formerly, Associate Director, Cancer Control Science Program, U.S. National Cancer Institute, and Director, Cancer Science and Trends, American Cancer Society



Will Godfrey

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Bill Godshall

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Dr. Scott Gottlieb



Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH


Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Berkeley: "In England, where leading medical organizations regard nicotine alone as relatively benign, the pressing need to reduce the risks for current smokers frames the debate. The overwhelming focus in the United States is abstinence. In the end, the sorts of policies that are implemented will depend on whether whoever dominates the debate views harm reduction as opportunity or anathema."
Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Berkeley


Marc Gunther



Jené Gutierrez, MA


Jené Gutierrez, MA, Journalist: "So here is my humble appeal to my fellow vape-judging brethren: Let’s admit that we were all wrong. Vaping, 95 percent healthier and 40 percent cheaper than smoking cigarettes, helps wean people off of an intense habit and naturally becomes an extension of their identity. So what? If this level of dedication to vaping is what destroys a dangerous addiction, then who cares? Looking down on vapers is basic and boring. They’re just doing the best they can, and are actually a less toxic presence because they vape—whether or not you want to admit it."
Jené Gutierrez, MA, Journalist


Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, BS



Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD



Nan Hayworth, MD



Dr. Cheryl Healton

Founding President and CEO of American Legacy Foundation (created from MSA Funds, now known as the Truth Initiative); Dean of School of Global Public Health and Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, NYU School of Global Public Health; Founding chair of the Public Health Practice Council of the Association of Schools of Public Health; Serves on the National Board of Public Health Examiners, the Betty Ford Institute, Lung Cancer Alliance, Board of Directors at the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and the Board of Directors at HealthRight International. Tobacco Harm Reduction Quote: E-cigarette Summit 2021 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. Retirement from American Legacy (now Truth)

Amy Faith Ho, MD


Amy Faith Ho, MD: "Chained by practicality, physicians don’t have the luxury of shooting for the impossibility of no harm. It’s time for us to embrace, on all topics — sex, drugs, smoking, etc. — harm reduction."
Amy Faith Ho, MD


Matthew Holman, PhD



Chris Howard, JD



Angela Janis, MD, DFAPA



Matthew Wayne Johnson, Ph.D.



Senator Ron Johnson

  • Wisconsin



Peter Killeen PhD



Brian King

Jaron Hoani King


Bethea A Kleykamp, MA, PhD

  • Quote Source / Bio and Photo / Follow on Twitter
  • COI: I currently have no conflicts of interest with respect to tobacco, vaping or pharmaceutical industries. From May 2014 to September 2018, I provided harm reduction consulting services to an e-cigarette company (NJOY) and a tobacco company (RJ Reynolds) through my work at Pinney Associates.



Robin Koval



Lynn Kozlowski



Pritika Kumar R-Street

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Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA



Jody Lanard MD



Harry A. Lando, PhD



Scott Leischow, PhD



Caryn Lerman, PhD



Alex Liber



Stefani Lord



Michael Madden, MD


Michael Madden, MD, Former Chief Medical Officer, Gateway Health: "No one wants a child to pick up an e-cigarette, but imprecise rhetoric about the reality of youth use of e-cigarettes misleads both the public and policymakers and results in tragic misunderstandings about one of the most promising tools public health has to help 34 million adults in this country who still smoke. Clear the air. Follow the science. Make tobacco harm reduction work for those who need it."
Michael Madden, MD, Former Chief Medical Officer, Gateway Health



Robin Mermelstein, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, Liberal Arts and Sciences Psychology Department Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy Co-Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Science University of Illinois at Chicago



Tom Miller JD




Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA



Ethan A Nadelmann


Ethan Nadelmann Founder, Drug Policy Alliance: “Cigarettes are truly deadly... if we can be moving people to a less harmful product, that’s what we should be doing... My fear is, that not only are we taking a major step backwards [in cutting rates of smoking], but we may be at the beginnings of the great new drug war of the 21st century.”
Ethan Nadelmann Founder, Drug Policy Alliance


Cam Nereim, MD, FAAP



Paul Newhouse

Quote source "It [nicotine] seems very safe even in nonsmokers. In our studies we find it actually reduces blood pressure chronically. And there were no addiction or withdrawal problems, and nobody started smoking cigarettes. The risk of addiction to nicotine alone is virtually nil."

Raymond S. Niaura, PhD


Raymond S. Niaura, PhD Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences New York University School of Global Public Health Former Director, Science and Training, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative Former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco: "Tobacco control’s overarching goal is to save lives as rapidly and effectively as possible. This will require open minds to rethink harms of nicotine when it is decoupled from combustible tobacco. Ideally, to displace smoking, less harmful products would have to be as, or more, appealing. Regulations and policy initiatives should be aligned so that less harmful products are able to compete and replace smoking as the way to obtain and use nicotine."
Raymond S. Niaura, PhD Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences New York University School of Global Public Health Former Director, Science and Training, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative Former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco


Joel Nitzkin, MD



Joe Nocera



Amy Nyman, MA



Michael Ogden, Phd



Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D.



Jason Osborne



Laura Leigh Oyler



Amanda Palmer, PhD



Tommy J Payne, JD



Kenneth A. Perkins, PhD



Michael F. Pesko, PhD



Carl V. Phillips, MPP, PhD



Ovide Pomerleau, PHD



Helen Redmond, LCSW



Vaughan Rees, PhD



Nancy A. Rigotti, MD



Dr. Brad Rodu



Jed Rose (Title?)



Veronique de Rugy, PhD



Sally Satel


Sally Satel, MD: "...public-health institutions that promote harm-reduction strategies to users of other drugs, are reluctant, if not hostile, to extending the same forbearance to smokers. This paradox is rooted in the anti-tobacco movement, which has, along with irresponsible actions by public-health institutions, derailed the vaping revolution."
Sally Satel, MD


Steven A Schroeder, MD



John Seffrin, MD, PhD


John Seffrin, MD, PhD: "Technologies/alternatives exist today that can help people quit smoking or at least reduce significantly their consumption of burned tobacco, which is what kills them. After fighting the tobacco epidemic for over 5 decades, we now have proven harm reduction methods to help us avoid a carnage in otherwise preventable deaths."
John Seffrin, MD, PhD


Arielle Selya, PhD


Arielle Selya, PhD Scientist, Pinney Associates, Inc : "“Triangulating” across different types of research all support the story that e-cigarettes are displacing cigarettes."
Arielle Selya, PhD Scientist, Pinney Associates, Inc.


Michael Siegel

Visiting Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine Boston



Robert Sklaroff



Gary E. Swan, PhD



Maia Szalavitz


Maia Szalavitz, Award-winning neuroscience journalist: "Forcing people to quit often drives them underground, to more dangerous behavior, not less. Vaping is less harmful than smoking. If you try to eliminate harm, not reduce it, it can backfire."
Maia Szalavitz, Award-winning neuroscience journalist


Benjamin Toll, PhD


Sheila Vakharia, PhD MSW



Harlan Vincent (NM)

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Nora D Volkow, MD


Nora D Volkow, MD Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health: "...electronic cigarettes offer an alternative delivery for nicotine [for] people who cannot stop smoking. And in the process, the European data has shown that actually there are benefits."
Nora D Volkow, MD Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health


Carrie Wade, PhD



Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman, MD


Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School:"Rather than fear mongering and blanket vaping opposition how about we have smarter, more thoughtful regulation that doesn’t fall prey to Prohibitionist mindsets which encourage homemade, mason-jar crafted vaping liquids?"
Sarah Elizabeth Wakeman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School


Thomas J. Walters, MD


Thomas J. Walters, MD: "Other countries use vaped nicotine for smoking cessation. It's wise to learn from other cultures."
Thomas J. Walters, MD


Kenneth Warner, PhD



Craig Weiss, JD


Craig Weiss, JD, Former CEO NJOY: "If you make it just as inconvenient and expensive to smoke an electronic cigarette as a Marlboro, people are going to keep smoking Marlboros. Is that really the unintended consequence they want? To keep them smoking? Because that is what they are doing and we know the consequence of that is people are going to die a painful and early death."
Craig Weiss, JD, Former CEO NJOY


Daniel Wikler, Ph.D.

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Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSc



Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP



Mitch Zeller, JD

Bio / Photo Source / Quote Source


Venezuela

Dr Ali M Ayubi MD, MS, PhD.

Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Addictions and Professor of Pharmacology, Behavioral Sciences and Addictions Medical University of the Caribbean Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Addiction Diseases of the University of Zulia.



Natasha A. de Herrera, PhD

Clinical Psychology, Centro Medico Docente la Trinidad, Psychiatric Unit, Smoking Cessation Clinic, Caracas



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2021: 75 Tobacco Control experts ask CDC to change the name of EVALI


2019: Testimony for New York Senate hearing on vaping safety - Clive Bates and David Sweanor


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