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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>
'''<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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='''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.
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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===
Oncological Surgeon. Professor of the first chair of Surgery UNNE. Member of the Argentine Academy of Medicine.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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===Silvia Inchaurraga. PHD.===
psychologist. Director of the Center for Advanced Studies on drug addiction and AIDS at the National University of Rosario.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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===Milton Klun===
Pharmacist, Universidad Nacional del Sur.
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name] / [https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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===Dr. Diego Verrastro===
===Dr. Diego Verrastro===
*[https://twitter.com/docverrastro/status/1400150938619351044 Source] / [https://twitter.com/docverrastro Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/docverrastro/status/1400150938619351044 Source] / [https://twitter.com/docverrastro Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:Argentina Dr. Diego Verrastro.png|center]]
[[file:Argentina Dr. Diego Verrastro.png|center|alt=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]]
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===Milton Klun===
='''Australia'''=
Pharmacist
 
Universidad Nacional del Sur.
 
Argentina
===Professor Amanda Baker===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
[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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='''Australia'''=
===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]
[[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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[[file:Australia Ron Borland PhD.png|center]]
 
===Stephen Bright, PhD===
[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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===Wayne Hall===
===Associate Professor Matthew Browne===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1067 Bio and Photo]
[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 Wayne Hall PhD.png|center]]
 
===Dr Andrew Byrne===
[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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===Dr. Alex Wodak AM===
===Professor David Castle===
*[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://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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[[file:Australia Dr Alex Wodak AM.png|center]]
 
===Professor Kate Conigrave===
[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]
[[file:Australia Kate Conigrave.png|center]]
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===Colin Mendelsohn, MB BS===
===Dr Jon Cook===
*[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/ Source: Bio, Photo, and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn 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 Colin Mendelsohn.png|center]]
 
===Dr Karen Counter===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Judith Watt===
===Professor Nick Crofts AM===
Former Executive Director, NCD Alliance
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
Former Director, Quit Victoria,
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Senator Hollie Hughes===
===Professor Richard (Ric) Day AM===
*
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[https://twitter.com/hollieahughes Follow on Twitter]
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===Fiona Patten MP===
===Professor Paul Dietze===
*
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[https://twitter.com/FionaPattenMLC Follow on Twitter]
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===Professor Kate Dolan===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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='''Austria'''=
===Professor Adrian Dunlop===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Conjoint Associate Professor Nadine Ezard===
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of name]
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===Bernhard-Michael Mayer, PhD===
===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]
*[https://twitter.com/beli_erf Follow on Twitter]
[[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]]
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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===Ernest Groman, MD===
===Professor Charles Gilks===
*[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://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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[[file:Austria Ernest Groman, MD.png|center]]
 
===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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='''Belgium'''=
===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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===Frank Baeyens, PhD===
===Wayne Hall, PHD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/FBaeyens Follow on Twitter]
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1067 Bio and Photo]
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[[file:Belgium Frank Baeyens, PhD.png|center]]
[[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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===Karolien Adriaens, PhD===
===Dr David Helliwell===
*[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]]
 
===Senator Hollie Hughes===
[https://twitter.com/hollieahughes Follow on Twitter]
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='''Canada'''=
===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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===Dr David Jacka===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Ian Irvine, PhD===
===Adjunct Associate Professor Michael Keane===
[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]
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
*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.
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[[file:Canada Ian Irvine PhD.png|center]]
 
===Dr Joe Kosterich===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===David Sweanor, JD===
===Rebecca Lang===
[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]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWqdz2VZcc Source of name]
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[[file:Canada David Sweanor, JD.png|center]]
 
===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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===Chris Lalonde, PhD===
===Professor Nicholas Lintzeris===
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[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[https://twitter.com/lalondechris Follow on Twitter]
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===Amelia Howard, Sociologist===
===Dr Michael Lowy===
*
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
*[https://twitter.com/Amelia_RH Follow on Twitter]
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===Mark Tyndall MD ScD FRCPC===
===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]
*[https://twitter.com/DrMtyndall Follow on Twitter]
[[file:Australia Dr Brad Mackay.png|center]]
Professor, School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Canada
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Dr John Oyston===
===Dr Annie Madden AO===
*[https://oyston.com/blog/disruptive/ Source: Photo and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/JohnOyston Follow on Twitter]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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[[file:Canada Dr John Oyston.png|center]]
 
===Professor Lisa Maher AM===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)===
===Associate Professor Victoria Manning===
Director of Prevention at the Montreal Heart Institute,
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
Professor of Medicine at the University of Montréal, Canada.
*[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]
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[[file:Canada Martin Juneau.png|center]]
 
===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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===Clifford Garfield Mahood, O.C.===
===Colin Mendelsohn, MB BS===
Founding Executive Director (1976-2012)
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/ Source: Bio, Photo, and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn Follow on Twitter]
Non-Smokers’ Rights Association
[[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]]
Toronto
Canada
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Patrick Fafard, PhD===
===Dr David Outridge===
Full Professor
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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]
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===Kellie Ann Forbes BScN===  
===Dr Peter Parry===
[https://vaepworld.com/the-woman-behind-it-all/ Here]  
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Fiona Patten MP===
[https://twitter.com/FionaPattenMLC Follow on Twitter]
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='''Chili'''=
===Mr Garth Popple===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Evert Rauwendaal===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Hernán Prat, MD, PhD===
===Professor Robyn Richmond===
Professor at the University of Chile. Former
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of name]
Director of the Cardiovascular Department of the
Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile. Former
president of the Chilean Society of Hypertension.
Chile
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Professor Alison Ritter AO FASSA===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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='''Colombia'''=
===Dr Fares Samara===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===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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===Hugo Caballero Durán, MD===
===Dr Catherine Silsbury===
Former president of the Colombian Society of
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
Pneumology.
Former Clinical Scientific Director of Marly Clinic.
Director of the Pneumology and Respiratory
Therapy Service, Marly Clinic
Bogotá, Colombia
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===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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='''Czech Republic'''=
===Dr Penelope Truman===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Dr Ingrid van Beek AM===
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Eva Králíková, MD===
===Dr Thomas Vandeleur===
Professor
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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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===Pavel Bém MD===
===Gino Vumbaca OAM===
Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
Head of the Clinical Department, Adictology Clinic,
<br>
Charles University
 
Former Mayor of Prague
===Dr Brian Walker MLC===
Member of The National Drug Commission
[https://web.archive.org/web/20230528065144/https://twitter.com/BrianWalkerMLC/status/1597511390960287744 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/BrianWalkerMLC Follow on Twitter]
Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
[[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]]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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='''Democratic Republic of the Congo'''=


===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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===Samuel Mukandi, BA===
===Professor Ian Webster AO===
*[https://twitter.com/samuelmukandi Follow on Twitter]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
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===Ian Webster AO===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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='''Ecuador'''=
===Dr Megan Weir===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Associate Professor Martin Weltman===
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
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===Enrique Teran, MD, PhD===
===Associate Professor Scott Wilson===
Professor
[https://athra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Critique-of-CMO-Statement-WEB-18Sept2019-.pdf Source of name]
College of Health Sciences - Universidad San
Francisco de Quito.
Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine
Academy of Science of Ecuador
Ecuador
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Francisco E. Urrestra. MD.===
===Dr. Alex Wodak AM===
Medical Director
[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]
Hospital Clinica Metropolitana. Ibarra.
[[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]]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===César Paz y Miño, MD, PhD===
='''Austria'''=
Director, Centro de Investigacion Genética y
Genómica and Specialist in Genetics and Human
Molecular Biology
Universidad UTE
Quito, Ecuador
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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='''England/(UK)'''=
===Ernest Groman, MD===
 
*[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]
===Sanjay Agrawal, MD, MBChB===
*[https://twitter.com/LeicesterLungs Follow on Twitter]
*Professor of Respiratory Medicine
*University of Leicester
*Chair –Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Adam Afriyie, BSc===
[[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]]
*[https://twitter.com/AdamAfriyie Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.adamafriyie.org/about-adam Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/thegtnf/status/1578007544425062407 Quote Source]
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[[file:England UK Adam Afriyie, BSc.png|center]]
 
===Professor Michael Kunze, MD===
*[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]  
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<br>
===Deborah Arnott===
[[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]]
*[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]]
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===Prof Paul Aveyard===
===Bernhard-Michael Mayer, PhD===
*[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]
*
*[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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===John Britton, MD===
='''Belgium'''=
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://www.festivalofpublichealth.co.uk/keynotespeakers/pastkeynotespeakers/professorjohnbritton/ Bio and Photo]
 
 
===Karolien Adriaens, PhD===
*[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]
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[[file:England UK John Britton, MD.png|center]]
[[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]]
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===Dr Leonie Brose===
===Frank Baeyens, PhD===
*[https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/825503 Source of name]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/FBaeyens Follow on Twitter]
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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]]
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===Sharon Cox, PhD===
='''Brazil'''=
*[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]
 
 
===Silvia Cazenave. PHD.===
PHD in Toxicology and Master in Toxicological Analysis.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:England UK Sharon Cox PhD.png|center]]
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<br>
 
===Monica Gorgulho===
===Lynne Dawkins, PhD===
Clinical psychology. Masters in Social Psychology. University of São Paulo, Brazil. Harm Reduction Specialist.
*[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.
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[[file:England UK Lynne Dawkings PhD.png|center]]
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<br>
===Patricia Kovacevic, J.D.===
 
*[https://twitter.com/patriciakova Follow on Twitter]
='''Canada'''=
*(Disclosures...)
 
 
===Michael Chaiton===
*
*[https://twitter.com/MichaelChaiton Follow on Twitter]
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<br>
===Floe Foxon, BSc===
===Patrick Fafard, PhD===
*[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]
Full Professor
*(Disclosures - Pinney & Associates does consulting for the Pharmaceutical Industry and for JUUL )
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]
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[[file:England UK Floe Foxon BSc.png|center]]
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===Kellie Ann Forbes BScN===  
===Martin Dockrell===
*[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]  
*[https://twitter.com/SwitchFinder Follow on Twitter]
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[[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]]
===Stuart Griffiths===
*[https://vaporvoice.net/2022/01/04/another-u-k-community-to-offer-free-vapes-to-smokers/ Quote Source]
*Director of research, services and policy at 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.”
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===Peter Hajek, PhD===
===Amelia Howard, Sociologist===
*[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]
*[https://twitter.com/Amelia_RH Follow on Twitter] / [https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yNyRhNe0liQ_uP3tSEcaLV9JB-gLyMEnCuE8aLBtPc/edit?usp=sharing Quote Source]  
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[[file:England UK Peter Hajek, PhD.png|center]]
[[file:Canada Amelia Howard.png|center]]
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===Ian Irvine, PhD===
===Sarah Jackson, PhD, MSc===
*[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]
*[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]
*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.
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[[file:England UK Sarah Jackson PhD.png|center]]
[[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]]
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<br>
 
===Martin Juneau MPs, MD, FRCP(C)===
===David Halpern===
*[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]
*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.
*[https://filtermag.org/uk-vaping-saves-lives/ Quote Source]
<br>
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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)]]
===Benjamin Human===
*[https://twitter.com/thehuman94 Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/thehuman94/status/1464197074635964416 Source of name]
<br>
<br>
 
===Chris Lalonde, PhD===
===Martin Jarvis ODE, 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]
[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:England UK Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD.png|center]]
[[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]]
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===Sir Norman Lamb===
===Clifford Garfield Mahood, O.C.===
[https://twitter.com/commonsstc/status/1030424754463952896 Graphics Source] / [https://twitter.com/normanlamb Follow on Twitter]
Founding Executive Director (1976-2012)
[[File:England UK Norman Lamb.png|center|]]
Non-Smokers’ Rights Association
Toronto
Canada
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Dr John Oyston===
*[https://oyston.com/blog/disruptive/ Source: Photo and Quote] / [https://twitter.com/JohnOyston Follow on Twitter]
<br>
[[file:Canada Dr John Oyston.png|center]]
<br>
===James (Jim) Rankin===
[https://www.clivebates.com/documents/TGAMendelsohn2.pdf Source of name]
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<br>


===Rosemary Leonard, MBE, MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, DRCOG===
===David Sweanor, JD===
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://patient.info/authors/dr-rosemary-leonard-mbe Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrRosemaryL Follow on Twitter]
[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]
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[[file:England UK Rosemary Leonard.png|center]]
[[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]]
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<br>


===Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH===
===Neda Debassige Toeg, BSP, RPh===
*[https://twitter.com/jimmcmanusph Follow on Twitter]
*[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]
[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,]
<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]]
<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]
<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]]
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<br>


===Ann McNeill, PhD===
='''Chile'''=
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1577297018417987585 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ann-mcneill Bio]
 
[[file:UK - Ann McNeill.png|center]]
 
===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.
*[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>
===Alejandro Erices Ocampo. PHD===
Biochemist – Doctor of Science – Post-doctorate in Neurosciences.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<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]
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<br>
<br>


===Olivia M Maynard, PhD===
='''Colombia'''=
*[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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===Marcus Munafò, PhD===
===Dr. Ramon Calderon===
*[https://twitter.com/MarcusMunafo Follow on Twitter]
Brazil, Colombia, Spain and Mexico - Doctor in medicine. Plastic Surgeon
Professor of Biological Psychology and MRC
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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]
<br>
<br>
===Clive Bates===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.e-cigarette-summit.us.com/speaker/clive-bates/ Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:Nigeria - Clive Bates.jpg|center]]
===Dr. Ana Maria Diaz===
PhD in Bioethics.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===John Newton, FRCP FFPH FRSPH===
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://www.ecehh.org/people/john-newton/ Bio]
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK John Newton 2.png|center]]
===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
*[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]
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='''Costa Rica'''=


===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. Randall Rodríguez Obando.===
[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]
Doctor in medicine. Specialist in Harm Reduction in patients with HIV.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:England UK David Nutt.png|center]]
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===Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan===
='''Czech Republic'''=
*[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]
<br>


===Debbie Robson, PhD===
*[https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ann-mcneill Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/debbierobson Bio]
[[file:UK Debbie Robson 2.png|center]]
<br>


===Louise Ross===
===Pavel Bém MD===
*[https://clivebates.com/louise_ross Source: Quote, Bio] / [https://www.sovape.fr/louise-ross/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/grannylouisa Follow on Twitter]
Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
<br>
Head of the Clinical Department, Adictology Clinic,
[[file:England UK Louise Ross.png|center]]
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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<br>


===Dr Kathryn Scott===
===Eva Králíková, MD===
*[https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19754957.yorkshire-cancer-research-welcomes-inclusion-vaping-guidelines/ Quote Source]
Professor
*chief executive at Yorkshire Cancer Research
Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
*"Easy and reliable access to vaping products will give more people in Yorkshire the best chance of quitting for good.”
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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<br>


===Lion Shahab, PhD CPsychol AFBPsS===
='''Democratic Republic of the Congo'''=
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=LSHAH80 Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/LionShahab Follow on Twitter]
 
[[file:UK - Lion Shahab.jpg|center]]
 
*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.
===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]
<br>
[[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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===Erikas Simonavičius, PhD===
='''Ecuador'''=
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1577654190301761536 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/erikas-simonavicius Bio]
 
[[file:UK Erikas Simonavičius.png|center]]
 
===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>
===Suzi Gage===
*[https://twitter.com/soozaphone Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===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
*[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>
===Emma V Beard===
*[https://twitter.com/DrEVBeard Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Tanya Soria. MD.===
Clinical Oncologist.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===Dr Russell Thorpe===
[https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/fylde-gp-promoting-vaping-to-help-smokers-quit-3475950 Quote source]
<br>
<br>
 
===Enrique Teran, MD, PhD===
===Robert West, PhD===
Professor
*[https://twitter.com/robertjwest Follow on Twitter]
College of Health Sciences - Universidad San
Professor Emeritus in Health Psychology,
Francisco de Quito.
University College London
Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine
*2011-2012 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]  
Academy of Science of Ecuador
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
Ecuador
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
*[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 Kevin Murphy===
*[https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn/status/1464750588441202688 Source of name and quote]
*[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/kevin-murphy/ Another source and photo]
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<br>


='''France'''=
===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>
='''El Salvador'''=




===Jacques Le Houezec, PhD===
===Dr. Edward Wollants===
*[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]
Internist and nutritionist.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:France - Jacques Le Houezec.jpg|center]]
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<br>


===Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg===
='''England/(UK)'''=
*[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>
[[file:France Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg.png|center]]
<br>


===Philippe Arvers, MD, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/addict38 Follow on Twitter]
Tobaccologist ans addictologist
Université Grenoble Alpes
France
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>


===Marion Adler, PhD===
===Adam Afriyie, BSc===
Smoking Cessation Specialist
*[https://twitter.com/AdamAfriyie Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.adamafriyie.org/about-adam Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/thegtnf/status/1578007544425062407 Quote Source]
Hôpital Antoine Béclère
Clamart
France
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Name Source - need to search for individual quote]
<br>
<br>
='''Germany'''=
[[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]]
 
 
===Peter Liese MEP===
*[https://twitter.com/peterliese Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1418253007951695876 Tweet about Peter]
<br>
<br>


===Frank Sitta===
===Sanjay Agrawal, MD, MBChB===
*[https://twitter.com/franksitta 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://twitter.com/LandlMichael/status/1427182285351264257 tweet about Frank]
<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]]
===PROFESSOR HEINO STÖVER===
[https://iotodeducation.com/people/professor-heino-stover/ PROFESSOR HEINO STÖVER]  and [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 here]
<br>
<br>


===Prof. Dirk Ziebolz===
===Deborah Arnott===
*[[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/ Source of name]]
*[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>
<br>


===Dr Ingo Schröder===
===Prof Paul Aveyard===
*[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/%5D%5D Source of name]
*[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]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>
<br>


='''Greece'''=
===Clive Bates===
[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]
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[[file:England UK Clive Bates.png|center]]
<br>


===Emma V Beard===
*[https://twitter.com/DrEVBeard Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>


===Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH===
===John Britton, MD===
[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://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [http://www.festivalofpublichealth.co.uk/keynotespeakers/pastkeynotespeakers/professorjohnbritton/ Bio and Photo]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Greece Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH.png|center]]
[[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>


='''Iceland'''=
===Leonie Brose, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1579755828005212160 Quote abd Graphic Source] / [https://www.addiction-ssa.org/author/dr-leonie-brose/ Bio]
<br>
[[file:England UK Leonie Brose PhD.png|center]]
<br>


===George Butterworth, BSc===
*[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]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>


===G. Karl Snæ MD===
===Carolina Garcia Canton===
*[https://twitter.com/KalliSnae Follow on Twitter]
*Disclosure: BAT
<br>
<br>


='''India'''=
===Hazel Cheeseman, MSc===
*[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]
<br>
[[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).]]
<br>


===Sharon Cox, PhD===
*[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]
<br>
[[file:England UK Sharon Cox PhD.png|center]]
<br>


===Dr Nimesh Desai===
===David Crane PhD===
*[http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=139015&sid=1 Quote Source] / [https://www.ihwcouncil.org/profile/dr-nimesh-desai/ Bio and Photo]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20230528043902/https://twitter.com/dhc23/status/1339922753781194753 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/dhc23 Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:India Dr Nimesh Desai.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]]
<br>
<br>


===Kiran Melkote, MBBS, MS===
===Lynne Dawkins, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/Dr_KiranMelkote 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]
Associate Consultant
*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.
Dept. of Orthopaedics
<br>
Fortis Memorial Research Institute,
[[file:England UK Lynne Dawkings PhD.png|center]]
New Delhi
India
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===Aparajeet Kar, MD===
===Martin Dockrell===
Consultant Pulmonology and Critical Care
*[https://twitter.com/SwitchFinder Follow on Twitter] / [https://oyston.com/blog/communicating-about-vaping/ Photo and Quote Source]
Sir H.N Reliance Foundation Hospital
<br>
Mumbai
[[file:England Martin Dockrell.png|center]]
India
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD===
 
*[https://twitter.com/rohseq Follow on Twitter]
===Katherine "Katie" East, PhD===
Professor of Internal Medicine
[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1580895275635290112 Quote and Graphic] / [https://twitter.com/Katie1East Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.katherineeast.co.uk/ Bio]
Specialist in Non-Invasive Cardiology, Diabetes,
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]
<br>
<br>
 
[[file:England UK Katherine East PhD.png|center]]
='''Ireland'''=
 
 
===Dr Garrett McGovern===
*[https://twitter.com/AddictionsPMC Follow on Twitter]
[http://prioritymedicalclinic.ie/team.html Bio] [https://www.medicalindependent.ie/to-vape-or-not-to-vape/ Article] and [https://respectvapers.ie/latest_news/letter-to-eu-commissioner-mairead-mcguinness-on-vaping/ Quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Italy'''=
===Dr Matthew Evison===
 
*[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]
 
===Riccardo Polosa===
*[https://twitter.com/RiccardoPolosa Follow on Twitter] / [https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [http://www.medclin.unict.it/faculty/riccardo.polosa Bio]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Italy Dr Riccardo Polosa.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Dr Matthew Evison .png|center]]
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<br>


===Umberto Tirelli MD===
===Jonathan Fell===
Professor
*[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]
Director, Cancer Center Clinica Mede Sacile
<br>
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
[[file:England UK Jon Fell.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Pietro Fiocchi===
===Floe Foxon, BSc===
[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/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 )
<br>
<br>
[[file:Italy Pietro Fiocchi.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Floe Foxon BSc.png|center]]
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<br>


='''Japan'''=
===Suzi Gage===
*[https://twitter.com/soozaphone Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>


===Stuart Griffiths, PhD===
*[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]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>


===Naohito Yamaguchi, MD===
===Peter Hajek, PhD===
Chief of Research Division, Saiseikai Research
*[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]
Institute of Health Care and Welfare
<br>
Former Professor of Public Health,
[[file:England UK Peter Hajek, PhD.png|center]]
School of Medicine,
Tokyo Women's Medical University
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
='''Kenya'''=


 
===David Halpern, PhD===
===Joseph Magero, BBA===
*[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]
*[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]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Kenya Joseph Magero BBA.png|center]]
[[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]]
<br>
<br>


='''Lithuania'''=
===Jamie Hartmann-Boyce===
*[https://twitter.com/jhb19 Follow on Twitter]
<br>


===Dr Richard Holliday===
[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]


===Morgana Danielė===
===Benjamin Human===
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1428353290228559884 video on twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/thehuman94 Follow on Twitter]
[https://twitter.com/thehuman94/status/1464197074635964416 Source of name]
<br>
<br>


='''Malaysia'''=
===Sarah Jackson, PhD, MSc===
*[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]
<br>
[[file:England UK Sarah Jackson PhD.png|center]]
<br>


===Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hbrc/tobacco/jarvism.html Bio and Photo]
<br>
[[file:England UK Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD.png|center]]
<br>


===Dr Steven Chow===
===Mark Jenkinson MP===
[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]
*[https://twitter.com/markjenkinsonmp Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1743798/quitting-smoking-alternative-products-vaping-comment Quote Source]
<br>
<br>
[[file:Malaysia Dr Steven Chow.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Dr Arifin Fii===
===Patricia Kovacevic, JD===
*[https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2021/09/29/crucial-step-in-tobacco-harm-reduction Source]
*[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
<br>
[[file:UK US Patricia Kovacevic, JD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD===
===Sir Norman Lamb===
Professor of Occupational Safety and
[https://twitter.com/commonsstc/status/1030424754463952896 Graphics Source] / [https://twitter.com/normanlamb Follow on Twitter]
Health/Ergonomics
<br>
Department of Environmental and Occupational
[[File:England UK Norman Lamb.png|center|]]
Health
University Putra
Malaysia
Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Name source - need to find individual quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Mexico'''=
===Rosemary Leonard, MBE, MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, DRCOG===
 
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://patient.info/authors/dr-rosemary-leonard-mbe Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DrRosemaryL Follow on Twitter]
 
===Roberto A Sussman, PhD===
*[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]
*Representing Pro-Vapeo Mexico
<br>
<br>
[[file:Mexico Roberto A Sussman, PhD.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Rosemary Leonard.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Christian Heinrich Henonin MD===
===Nicola Lindson===
MIPH International Public Health.
*[https://twitter.com/DrNLindson Follow on Twitter]
Medical professor, researcher and health
consultant
Mexico
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


='''Morocco'''=
===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."


===Imane Kendili M.D.===
===Olivia M Maynard, PhD===
Psychiatre - Addictologue
*[https://twitter.com/OliviaMaynard17 Follow on Twitter]
Professeure affiliée à l'UM6P
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Science
Cheffe de service Psychiatrie-Addictologie Clinique
Bristol Population Health Science Institute
Andalouss
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Vice-Présidente du Centre Africain de Recherche
Bristol,
en Santé
United Kingdom
Morocco
*[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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<br>


='''New Zealand'''=
===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
<br>


===Ruth Bonita, MPH, PhD, MD (hon) and Robert Beaglehole, MD, DSc===
===Jim McManus, OCDS, FFPH===
*[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]
*[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]
<br>
<br>
[[file:NZ Ruth and Robert.png|center]]  
[[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)]]
<br>
<br>


===Marewa Glover, PhD===
===Ann McNeill, PhD===
*[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/KingsNRG/status/1577297018417987585 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ann-mcneill Bio]
<br>
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[[file:NZ Marewa Glover, PhD.png|center]]
[[file:UK - Ann McNeill.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Deborah Hart LLB===
===Dr Peter Miller===
*[https://www.facebook.com/LegaliseVaping/posts/ash-nz-director-deborah-hart-we-know-that-vaping-causes-less-harm-than-smoking-t/577401752811568/ Source: Quote]  
*Chief Executive of Leicestershire Partnership Trust
<br>
*[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]
[[file:NZ Deborah Hart.png|center]]
*“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
<br>
<br>


===Natalie Walker, PhD===
===Marcus Munafò, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/nwalker25021458 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/MarcusMunafo Follow on Twitter]
Associate Professor of Population Health and
Professor of Biological Psychology and MRC
Director of the Centre for Addiction Research,
Investigator
National Institute for Health Innovation,
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences,
School of Psychological Science
University of Auckland
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]
<br>
<br>


===Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, B.Sc. Pharm, B. Chem===
===Dr Kevin Murphy===
*[https://twitter.com/ElianaRubashkyn Follow on Twitter]
*[https://twitter.com/ColinMendelsohn/status/1464750588441202688 Source of name and quote]
Consultant, advisor in health policy and toxicology.
*[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/kevin-murphy/ Another source and photo]
National University of Colombia
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===George Laking, MD, PhD===
===John Newton, FRCP FFPH FRSPH===
*[https://twitter.com/glaking Follow on Twitter]
[https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [https://www.ecehh.org/people/john-newton/ Bio]
Chair, End Smoking New Zealand
<br>
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
[[file:England UK John Newton 2.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Yolande Jeffares===
===Caitlin Notley, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/ChuggaLuggs Follow on Twitter]
*[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]
<br>
[[file:England UK Caitlin Notley, PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


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


===PM Jacinda Ardern===
===Dr Kirstie Soar===
*Centre of Addictive Behaviours Research, London South Bank University, UK
<br>
<br>


='''Nigeria'''=
===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]
<br>


===Debbie Robson, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1579484769506988032 Source] / [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/debbierobson Bio]
<br>
[[file:UK Debbie Robson 2.png|center]]
<br>


 
===Louise Ross===
===Aishat Alaran===
*[https://clivebates.com/louise_ross Source: Quote, Bio] / [https://www.sovape.fr/louise-ross/ Photo] / [https://twitter.com/grannylouisa Follow on Twitter]
*Follow on Twitter #WomenInTHR
MPhil Candidate at University of Cambridge. Commonwealth Shared Cambridge Trust Scholar. Public Health Researcher
<br>
<br>
[[file:England UK Louise Ross.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


='''Norway'''=
===Dr Kathryn Scott===
 
*[https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19754957.yorkshire-cancer-research-welcomes-inclusion-vaping-guidelines/ Quote Source]
 
*chief executive at Yorkshire Cancer Research
===Karl E Lund, PhD===
*"Easy and reliable access to vaping products will give more people in Yorkshire the best chance of quitting for good.”
*[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>
 
===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.
<br>
<br>
[[file:Norway Karl Lund PHD.png|center]]
[[file:UK Lion Shahab PhD.png|center]]  
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='''Pakistan'''=
===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]]
<br>


===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.
<br>


===Dr Ashar Ahmed===
===Harry Tattan-Birch, MSc===
[https://nation.com.pk/21-Nov-2021/banning-is-not-always-the-answer Source for name and quote]
*[https://twitter.com/TattanBirch Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/TattanBirch/status/1182745428867067904 Quote Source] /
[https://www.addiction-ssa.org/author/mr-harry-tattan-birch/ Bio]
<br>
<br>


='''Philippines'''=
===Eve Taylor===
[https://twitter.com/KingsNRG/status/1580215037750169601 Quote Source]
<br>


===Dr. Fernando Fernandez===
===Frances Thirlway, PhD, MSc===
[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]
*[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]
<br>
<br>
[[File:Philippine Dr. Fernando Fernandez 2.png|center]]
[[file:England UK Frances Thirlway PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Ron Christian G. Sison, MLS(ASCPi), MPH===
===Dr Russell Thorpe===
Assistant Professor
[https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/fylde-gp-promoting-vaping-to-help-smokers-quit-3475950 Quote source]
Lead Convenor
Harm Reduction Alliance of the Philippines
Manila
Philippines
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===Arleen R. Reyes, DMD, ICD, ICCDE===
===Robert West, PhD===
Past President, Philippine Dental Association
*[https://twitter.com/robertjwest Follow on Twitter]
Chairman, Commission on Dental Education
Professor Emeritus in Health Psychology,
Asia -Pacific Dental Federation
University College London
Philippines
*2011-2012 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents 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]
 
===Dr. Rafael R. Castillo===
*[https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/06/24/heart-expert-says-filipino-smokers-deserve-less-harmful-alternatives/ Source]
<br>
[[File:Philippines Dr Rafael R Castillo.png|center]]
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<br>


='''Poland'''=
='''France'''=


===Marion Adler, PhD===
Smoking Cessation Specialist
Hôpital Antoine Béclère
Clamart
France
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP8LetterOctober2018.pdf Name Source - need to search for individual quote]
<br>


===Andrzej Sobczak, PhD===
===Philippe Arvers, MD, PhD===
Professor
*[https://twitter.com/addict38 Follow on Twitter]
Head of Department of General and Inorganic
Tobaccologist ans addictologist
Chemistry
Université Grenoble Alpes
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec
France
Medical University of Silesia
Katowice
Poland
*[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>


='''Scotland'''=
===Élisabeth Borne, Prime Minister===
 
*[https://twitter.com/vapeindia/status/1535846093161897984 Photo] / [https://twitter.com/Elisabeth_Borne Follow on Twitter]  
 
===[https://www.thevapingtoday.com/dr-ehsan-latif-who-and-fctc-secretariat-cannot-sustain-their-current-position/ Dr. Ehsan Latif]===
<br>
<br>
===Prof Linda Bauld, OBE===
*[https://twitter.com/LindaBauld Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>


='''South Africa'''=
===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>
[[file:France Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg.png|center]]
<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>


===Solomon Rataemane===
===Jacques Le Houezec, PhD===
*[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]
*[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>
[[File:South Africa Solomon Rataemane.png|center]]
[[file:France Jacques Le Houezec, PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


='''South Korea'''=
===Olivier Véran===
 
*[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]
 
<br>
===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'''=
='''Germany'''=




===Fernando Fernández Bueno, MD===
===Peter Liese MEP===
Oncological surgeon at the Hospital Central de la
*[https://twitter.com/peterliese Follow on Twitter]
Defensa Gómez Ulla
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1418253007951695876 Tweet about Peter]
Professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares
<br>
Madrid
<br>
Spain
===Alexander K. Nussbaum, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[https://twitter.com/NussbaumDr Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/draknussbaum/ Bio]
<br>
<br>
<br>


===Josep María Ramón Torrell, MD, PhD.===
===Dr Ingo Schröder===
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
*[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/%5D%5D Source of name]
University of Barcelona
<br>
Head of Clinical Prevention Research Group
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institut
Head of Tobacco Prevention Service
Bellvitge Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===José David García Muñiz, MD, PhD===
===Dr. F. Artur Schroers===
Clinical Pharmacology and Internal Medicine
*[https://twitter.com/Tobaccoharmred1/status/1599754395943477250 Source of Graphic]
Clinical Trials Coordinator, Principal Investigator
<br>
University Hospital of Ceuta
[[file:Germany Dr. F. Artur Schroers.png|center]]
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===Francisco Garcia Sierra, MD.===
===Frank Sitta===
Head of the Nephrology Service
*[https://twitter.com/franksitta Follow on Twitter]
University Hospital of Ceuta
[https://twitter.com/LandlMichael/status/1427182285351264257 tweet about Frank]
Spain
<br>
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<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]
<br>
[[file:Germany HEINO STÖVER, PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Prof. Dirk Ziebolz===
===Angel González Ureña, PhD===
*[[https://eu.dental-tribune.com/news/tobacco-harm-reduction-core-element-of-periodontal-therapy-says-head-doctor/ Source of name]]
Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry.
Complutense University of Madrid
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Maria del Mar Sangüesa Jareño, MD===
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>


===Antonio Sierra, MD, PhD===
='''Greece'''=
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public
 
Health at the University of La Laguna.
 
Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the
===Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH===
University of La Laguna
[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]
Former General Director of Public Health of the
<br>
Government of the Canary Islands
[[file:Greece Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH.png|center]]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
='''Guatemala'''=


===Carmen Escrig, PhD===
 
Genetics and Cell Biology
===Dr Erick Estrada===
Autonomous University of Madrid
Family doctor and surgeon. Focused on preventive medicine
Spain
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===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>


===Miguel de la Guardia PhD===
='''Iceland'''=
Professor of Analytical Chemistry
 
University of Valencia
 
Spain
===G. Karl Snæbjörnsson, MD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
*[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]]
===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>


='''Singapore'''=
='''India'''=




===Andrew John da Roza===
===Dr Nimesh Desai===
Psychotherapist - Addictions
*[http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=139015&sid=1 Quote Source] / [https://www.ihwcouncil.org/profile/dr-nimesh-desai/ Bio and Photo]
Promises Health Care Pte. Ltd.
<br>
Singapore
[[file:India Dr Nimesh Desai.png|center]]
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>


===Tan Kok Kuan, MD===
===Aparajeet Kar, MD===
Medical Director
Consultant Pulmonology and Critical Care
Dr Tan Medical Center
Sir H.N Reliance Foundation Hospital
Novena Medical Center
Mumbai
Singapore
India
*[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>


='''Sweden'''=
===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]
 
===Anders Milton MD, PhD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://sobrera.com/board-of-directors/ Bio and Photo]
<br>
<br>
[[File:Sweden Anders Milton MD, PhD.png|center]]
[[file:India Dr Kiran Melkote, MBBS, MS.png|center]]
<br>
<br>


===Lars Ramström PhD===
===Rohan Sequeira, MD, PhD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo]
*[https://twitter.com/rohseq Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/rohseq/status/1055329890130636800 Quote Source] / [https://revivalclinic.in/about-me Photo and Bio]
[[File:Sweden - Lars Ramstrom.jpg|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
[[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]]
===KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD===
*[https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/tobacco-harm-reduction-the-stunning-success-of-snus-in-sweden/ Quote and some Bio Info] “We have very good evidence that harm reduction is operating and is contributing to less death and disease from tobacco.”
*[https://www.infocusthr.org/karl-fagerstrom Bio and Photo]
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='''Switzerland'''=
='''Ireland'''=




===Tikki Elka Pang, PhD===
===Dr Garrett McGovern===  
Former Director,
*[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]
Research Policy & Cooperation,
<br>
WHO, Geneva
[[file:Ireland Dr Garrett McGovern2.png|center]]
Switzerland
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Jean-François Etter, PhD===
='''Italy'''=
*[https://twitter.com/etterjf Follow on Twitter]
 
Professor of public health
 
Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine
===Pietro Fiocchi===
University of Geneva
[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://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:Italy Pietro Fiocchi.png|center]]
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===Dr. Moira Gilchrist===
===Riccardo Polosa===
*[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]
*[https://twitter.com/RiccardoPolosa Follow on Twitter] / [https://vaepworld.com/ Quote Source] / [http://www.medclin.unict.it/faculty/riccardo.polosa Bio]
Include a disclosure about PMI
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[[file:Italy Dr Riccardo Polosa.png|center]]
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='''Tunisia'''=
===Umberto Tirelli MD===
Professor
Director, Cancer Center Clinica Mede Sacile
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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='''Japan'''=




===Fares Mili MD-CTTS- NCTTP===
===Naohito Yamaguchi, MD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source:] / [https://www.nosmokesummit.org/speakers/fares-mili/ Bio and Photo]
Chief of Research Division, Saiseikai Research
[[File:Tunisia Fares Mili MD CTTS NCTTP.png|center]]
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]
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='''United Arab Emirates'''=
='''Kenya'''=




 
===Joseph Magero, BBA===
===Cother Hajat, MBBS PhD FFPH FRCP===
*[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/CotherHajat Follow on Twitter]
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[[file:Kenya Joseph Magero BBA.png|center]]
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='''United States'''=
='''Lithuania'''=




===David Dobbins, JD, MPH===  
===Morgana Danielė===
[https://tobaccoreporter.com/2022/12/01/reality-check-3/ Source of Quote] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-dobbins-51a0794/ Source of Photo]
[https://twitter.com/vapers_alliance/status/1428353290228559884 video on twitter]
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[[file:US David Dobbins JD MPH.png|center]]
 
='''Malaysia'''=
 
 
===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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===Karen K Gerlach, PhD, MPH===
[[file:Malaysia Dr Steven Chow.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]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Karen K Gerlach PhD MPH.png|center]]  
 
===Dr Arifin Fii===
*[https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2021/09/29/crucial-step-in-tobacco-harm-reduction Source]
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===Nan Hayworth, MD===
===Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, PhD===
*[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]
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]
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[[file:Nan Hayworth MD.png|center]]
 
='''Mexico'''=
 
 
===Ldo. Edgar Caballero===
Behavioral psychologist
*[https://twitter.com/edd_edgar Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===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]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Matt Holman PHD.png|center]]  
 
===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.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
<br>
<br>
===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]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Ted Kyle RPh MBA 2.png|center]]  
===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>
<br>
 
===Christian Heinrich Henonin MD===
===Cam Nereim, MD, FAAP===
MIPH International Public Health.
[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]
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]
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[[file:US Cameron Nereim, MD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
===Michael Ogden, Phd===
===Dr. José Manuel Mier===
*[https://gtnf.org/mike-ogden Photo Source] / [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/11/07/accurate-information-on-nicotine-to-save-smokers-lives/ Quote Source]
*[https://twitter.com/Doctor_Mier Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Michael Ogden PhD.png|center]]
<br>
<br>
 
===Luz Odette Villegas Pichardo. MD===
===Laura Leigh Oyler===
Internal Medicine. South Medical Hospital. Metropolitan Angeles Hospital.
*[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]
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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[[file:US Laura Leigh Oyler 3.png|center]]
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===Kenneth Warner, PhD===
===Roberto A Sussman, PhD===
*[https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/warner-kenneth.html Bio and Photo] /
*[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]
*Representing Pro-Vapeo Mexico
<br>
<br>
[[file:Kenneth Warner2.jpg|center]]
[[file:Mexico Roberto A Sussman, PhD.png|center]]
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='''Morocco'''=
*Author of: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210105121608/https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article/21/10/1299/4990310 How to Think—Not Feel—about Tobacco Harm Reduction]
 
*Author of: [https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2019posts/whos-smoking-now-and-why-it-matters-020119.html Who’s Smoking Now, and Why It Matters]
*2004-2005 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*Former BOD American Legacy Foundation / Truth Initiative
*[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]


*[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 Source]
===Imane Kendili MD===
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
*[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]
**Evidence from six completely different sources demonstrates that vaping is increasing smoking cessation.
<br>
***1. Randomized controlled trials. The Cochrane Review, the gold standard of scientific credibility, says there is “moderate certainty evidence” that vaping increases smoking cessation more effectively than do nicotine replacement therapy products.
[[file:Morocco Imane Kendili MD.png|center]]
***2. Population studies find e-cigarettes increasing smoking cessation, especially when people use ecigarettes frequently.
***3. As e-cigarette sales rise, cigarette sales fall. Econometric studies confirm the two products are substitutes.
***4. Other studies have found that policies intended to decrease youth vaping have increased youth smoking. Another study found that a tax on e-cigarettes in Minnesota increased adult smoking and decreased smoking cessation.
***5. Multiple simulation analyses have concluded that the potential benefit of vaping for adult smoking cessation substantially outweighs any risk that vaping might increase youth smoking.
***6. Swedish men’s substituting snus, a smokeless tobacco product, for cigarettes demonstrates the potential for lower-risk products to dramatically reduce tobacco-produced diseases.
**Tragically, public health organizations that focus exclusively on the potential risks of vaping for young people – risks that, frankly, have been grossly exaggerated – are likely to be damaging the health of the public.
**Kenneth Warner, PhD
**Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Health,
**Dean Emeritus of Public Health
**University of Michigan
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===[https://history.library.ucsf.edu/schroeder.html Steven Schroeder]===
='''Netherlands (Holland)'''=
[[file:Steven Schroeder2.jpg|center]]
 
*Photo: E-Cig Summit 2020
='''New Zealand'''=
*[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 Source: Article by Marc Gunther] and [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/juul-ban.html Source: Article by Thomas Fuller]
 
 
===PM Jacinda Ardern===
<br>
<br>


===[https://richmond.com/business/fda-names-new-head-of-tobacco-products-center/article_8ee4def2-7c75-5b05-9e33-0749862a08df.html?fbclid=IwAR2DgyaIP2S7pyA0Salyprdh3hpRF2c0XZspvd4_RqbwlvBYXaBjRQuC5Jg Mitch Zeller, JD]===
===Robert Beaglehole, MD, DSc===
[[file:Mitch Zeller2.jpg|center]]
[https://ncdalliance.org/robert-beaglehole-0 Robert: Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/RBeaglehole Follow Robert on Twitter]
*Photo: [https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-insight/fda-insight-e-cigarettes-and-national-youth-tobacco-survey FDA]
*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]]  
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===Dr. Scott Gottlieb===
===Julian Buchanan, CPA, DSW, MA, PhD===
*[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://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]
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[[file:US Dr Scott Gottlieb.png|center]]
[[file:NZ Julian Buchanan PhD.png|center]]
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===Alex Azar, JD===
===Chris Bullen, PhD===
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Azar Bio] / [https://twitter.com/Vapingit/status/1467519451557990405 Graphic Source] / [https://twitter.com/AlexAzar Follow on Twitter]
*[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]
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[[file:USA - Alex Azar.jpg|center]]
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===Dr. Jerome Adams===
===Marewa Glover, PhD===
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams Bio] / [https://twitter.com/Vapingit/status/1467519451557990405 Graphic Source] / [https://twitter.com/JeromeAdamsMD Follow on Twitter]
*[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]
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[[file:USA - Jerome Adams.jpg|center]]
[[file:NZ Marewa Glover, PhD.png|center]]
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===David Abrams===
===Deborah Hart LLB===
[[file:David Abrams.jpg|center]]
*[https://www.facebook.com/LegaliseVaping/posts/ash-nz-director-deborah-hart-we-know-that-vaping-causes-less-harm-than-smoking-t/577401752811568/ Source: Quote]  
*1-David Abrams [https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mariame-kaba-interview-til-we-free-us/ good quotes from David and others]
**Photo: [https://knownicotine.com/ Documentary - You Don't Know Nicotine]
**Quote: [https://watchibex.com/programs/ydkn?cid=1505479 Interview]
**Bio: [https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/david-b-abrams NYU School of Global Public Health]
*2-Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
**WHO of all Institutions should base its policies and recommendations on the best and strongest scientific evidence available. The WHO can do better at saving the lives of over a billion smokers by updating its science and by correcting the massive misinformation that all forms of nicotine and tobacco -products are equally deadly and thus smokers should quit or die rather than reduce their harms dramatically by using dramatically less harmful modes of nicotine delivery.
**The WHO misinformation is not science at its best, it is tantamount to embracing propaganda. Propaganda that conflates all tobacco and nicotine products as being equally harmful. This is unacceptable from such an august and respected body as WHO, it is antithetical to the core values of WHO – of social justice, eradication of preventable chronic diseases where combusted (smoked ) tobacco and some forms of smokeless tobacco but not nicotine itself is the primary driver of chronic diseases, death and untold suffering.
**David B Abrams PhD.
**Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
**New York University School of Global Public Health
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<br>
 
[[file:NZ Deborah Hart.png|center]]
===[https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/about-us/about-attorney-general-tom-miller Tom Miller]===
*[https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/statement-by-attorney-general-tom-miller-on-electronic-cigarettes?fbclid=IwAR3hUipuRok0sy1PKpMGR4O26hKyF3XZfcXAWoW8WX87oJ3ssWOerhtD-5A Quote source] / [https://twitter.com/AGIowa Follow on Twitter]
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[[File:Iowa AG Tom Miller2.jpg|center|Iowa Attorney General]]<br>
*[https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Tom_Miller More information about Tom Miller's support of Tobacco Harm Reduction]  
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===Scott Ballin, JD===
===Yolande Jeffares===
*[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
*[https://twitter.com/ChuggaLuggs Follow on Twitter]
*[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.
*[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.
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
**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.
**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)
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<br>


===Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD, MPH===
===George Laking, MD, PhD===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/facultydirectory/Cummings-Kenneth Bio and Photo]
*[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]
<br>
Chair, End Smoking New Zealand
[[file:US Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD.png|center]]
*“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."
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<br>


===Ovide Pomerleau, PHD===
===Dr Murray Laugesen===
*[https://www.umich-nicotine-lab.org/about-dr-ovide-pomerleau.html Bio and Photo]
*[https://twitter.com/DrQso Follow on Twitter]
*1995-1995 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*“…inhaling mist from the e-cigarette is rated several orders of magnitude (100 to 1000 times) less dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes.”
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*[https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2013/12/electronic-cigarette-quotes.html Quote Source]
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===Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD===
===Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, BSc Pharm, B. Chem===
*[https://med.umn.edu/bio/psychiatry/dorothy-hatsukami Bio and Photo]
*[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]
*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:NZ Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn, BSc.png|center]]
===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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===Harry A. Lando, PhD===
===Dr Penelope Truman===
*2002-2003 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[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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===Nancy A. Rigotti, MD===
===Natalie Walker, PhD===
*2003-2004 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://twitter.com/nwalker25021458 Follow on Twitter]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
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
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===David J. K. Balfour, DSc===
===Ben Youdan===
*2005-2006 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
[https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/ Source of name]
*[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. Michael Madden===
='''Nigeria'''=
[https://triblive.com/opinion/dr-michael-madden-clearing-the-air-about-youth-vaping/ Dr. Michael Madden: Clearing the air about youth vaping]
 
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===Scott Leischow, PhD===
===[https://www.linkedin.com/in/adebisi-yusuff-adebayo/ ADEBISI Yusuff Adebayo]===
*2008-2009 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*[https://twitter.com/prof_rx/status/1695484999179399538 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/prof_rx Follow on Twitter]
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
*(CASA Board - Africa) Nigeria/UK
"Nicotine is not the primary cause of smoking-related diseases, including cancer."
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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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===Gary E. Swan, PhD===
===Aishat Alaran===
*2012-2013 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
*Follow on Twitter #WomenInTHR
*[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]
MPhil Candidate at University of Cambridge. Commonwealth Shared Cambridge Trust Scholar. Public Health Researcher
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='''Norway'''=


===Clifford E. Douglas, J.D===
 
*[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]:
===Karl E Lund, PhD===
*In 1988  he served as the associate director of the National Coalition on Smoking or Health, where he worked for its founding director, Matt Myers (who later became the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids); He served as an attorney and advisor in the state attorney general actions that resulted in the Master Settlement Agreement; Worked as a policy advocate, lawyer and consultant on behalf of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and the Public Health Law Center; Served as the American Cancer Society’s Vice President for Tobacco Control and as the founding Director of ACS’s Center for Tobacco Control; He is the Director, University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network and Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health.
*[https://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]
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[[file:US Clifford Douglas JD.png|center]]
[[file:Norway Karl Lund PHD.png|center]]
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===Allan Erickson===
='''Pakistan'''=
No Photo found.
 
[https://www.tobaccoreform.org/#takeaction Source #1] Bio: Former Vice President for Public Education and Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society; staff director, Latin American Coordinating Committee for Tobacco Control. National Tobacco Reform Initiative (NTRI) Coordinator
 
[https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_4/ Statement / Quotes: ] I know how totally horrible tobacco is for a human being, and what it does to you. But I think things are moving in the direction of harm reduction. I think a lot of people have hidden their heads in the sand. They are just so totally opposed to e-cigarettes, it drives them nuts. I think there is a whole range of new products that are coming up that could potentially be better and better and better—less harmful.
===Dr Ashar Ahmed===
[https://nation.com.pk/21-Nov-2021/banning-is-not-always-the-answer Source for name and quote]
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='''Peru'''=


===Abigail S. Friedman, Ph.D.===
*[https://twitter.com/AFriedmanPhD Follow on Twitter]
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
**A myriad of studies link e-cigarette price increases and access-restrictions to greater smoking rates. Findings from biochemical analyses suggest that such regulations are likely to be harmful on net: vaping nicotine appears to produce substantially lower levels of key toxicants than smoking cigarettes; and, adverse respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes as well as biomarkers for major carcinogens generally fall when smokers switch to nicotine e-cigarettes. Thus, for smokers who do not want to quit tobacco or who want to quit but have been unsuccessful in their cessation attempts, substituting towards electronic nicotine delivery systems offers a means to reduce their risk of tobacco-related illness. The public health community and World Health Organization have a moral obligation to clearly communicate these facts to smokers and their families, and to advocate for policies that reflect tobacco products’ relative risks.”
**Abigail S. Friedman, Ph.D. - [https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/abigail_friedman/ Bio and Photo]
**Assistant Professor,
**Department of Health Policy and Management
**Yale School of Public Health
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===Jonathan Foulds PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/JonathanFoulds Follow on Twitter]
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
**Over a billion people smoke tobacco. All smokers should be informed that many sources of nicotine are far less harmful than cigarettes. Keeping people ignorant of this fact denies the basic human right to accurate information and impairs their ability to make informed choices that affect their health. Nicotine in its most harmful and addictive form—the cigarette—is typically cheap, available everywhere, to take for as long as you like, and in many parts of the world (including the USA) comes with minimum information on health risks. It is time for regulation of all nicotine-delivery products to provide access inversely proportional to harmfulness (the opposite of the current situation). [Foulds & Kozlowski, 2007]
**Jonathan Foulds PhD - [https://cancer.psu.edu/researchers/individual/-/researcher/5B6500F63D2138DBE0540010E056499A/jonathan-foulds-phd Bio and Photo]
**Professor of Public Health Sciences & Psychiatry
**Penn State University, College of Medicine, United States


[https://twitter.com/JonathanFoulds/status/1397974143669317636 Jonathan Foulds PhD]
===Dr Omar Ghiglione===
Venezuela, Peru
Peripheral Vascular Surgeon.
*[https://www.reldat.org/quienes-somos/ Latin America Group Letter]
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===Alex Liber===
='''Philippines'''=
*[https://twitter.com/AlexCLiber Follow on Twitter]
 
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===Dr. Cheryl Healton===
===Dr. Rafael R. Castillo===
*[https://twitter.com/DrCherylHealton Follow on Twitter]
*[https://www.24shareupdates.com/2022/06/24/heart-expert-says-filipino-smokers-deserve-less-harmful-alternatives/ Source]
*[https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/cheryl-healton Bio / Photo is on her bio page:]
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Founding President and CEO of American Legacy Foundation (created from MSA Funds, now known as the Truth Initiative);
[[File:Philippines Dr Rafael R Castillo.png|center]]
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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===Bethea A Kleykamp, MA, PhD===
===Dr. Fernando Fernandez===
*[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]
[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]
*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:Philippine Dr. Fernando Fernandez 2.png|center]]
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===Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, BS===
*[https://twitter.com/DrScottHadland Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.bumc.bu.edu/care/faculty/scott-hadland/ Photo and Bio]
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[[file:US Scott Hadland, MD.png|center]]
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===[https://www.huffpost.com/author/lynn-t-kozlowski-phd Lynn Kozlowski]===
===Arleen R. Reyes, DMD, ICD, ICCDE===
*[https://twitter.com/ltkoz1 Follow on Twitter]
Past President, Philippine Dental Association
*[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/e-cigarettes_b_4550443 E-cigs vs. Cigs: Cut Through, Cut In, Cut Down, Cut Out]
Chairman, Commission on Dental Education
Asia -Pacific Dental Federation
Philippines
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Ethan A Nadelmann===
===Ron Christian G. Sison, MLS(ASCPi), MPH===
*[https://twitter.com/ethannadelmann Follow on Twitter]
Assistant Professor
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
Lead Convenor
**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.
Harm Reduction Alliance of the Philippines
**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.
Manila
**Ethan A Nadelmann - [https://drugpolicy.org/staff/ethan-nadelmann-founder Bio] and [https://twitter.com/ethannadelmann/status/857637028883771396 Photo]
Philippines
**Founder & Former Executive Director (2000-2017)
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
**Drug Policy Alliance
**New York and International
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===Raymond S. Niaura, PhD===
='''Poland'''=
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
 
**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.
 
**Raymond Niaura PhD. ([https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Bio and Photo])
===Andrzej Sobczak, PhD===
**Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor
**New York University School of Global Public Health
Head of Department of General and Inorganic
**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]
Chemistry
**Deputy Editor of the [https://academic.oup.com/ntr Nicotine and Tobacco Research]
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Letter from one hundred specialists in nicotine science, policy, and practice]
Medical University of Silesia
Katowice
Poland
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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='''Romania'''=


===[https://www.tobaccoreform.org/john-seffrin/ 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 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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===Michael Siegel===
===Mihaela Răescu Phd===
*[https://twitter.com/mbsiegel 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]
Visiting Professor,
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Department of Public Health and Community
[[file:Romania Mihaela Răescu Phd.png|center]]
Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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===Paul Newhouse===
='''Scotland'''=
*[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."
 
===Prof Linda Bauld, OBE===
*[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]
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[[file:Scotland Linda Bauld PhD.png|center]]
===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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===Charles A. Gardner, PhD===
===[https://www.thevapingtoday.com/dr-ehsan-latif-who-and-fctc-secretariat-cannot-sustain-their-current-position/ Dr. Ehsan Latif]===
*[https://twitter.com/ChaunceyGardner Follow on Twitter]
*Find quote
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===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] /
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[[file:Scotland Christopher Russell PhD.png|center]]
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===Arielle Selya, PhD===
='''South Africa'''=
(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]
*[https://twitter.com/ArielleSelya Follow on Twitter]
(Add disclosure about now working @Pinney)
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===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]
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===Matthew Wayne Johnson, Ph.D.===
===Dr Kgosi Letlape===
[https://filtermag.org/nicotine-drug-prohibition-tobacco-harm-reduction/ Quote] / [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/matthew-johnson Bio and Photo]
*[https://www.infocusthr.org/kgosi-letlape Bio] / [https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/global-tobacco-control-hugely-outdated-dr-kgosi-letlape/ Photo and Quote]
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[[file:US Matthew Johnson PhD.png|center]]
[[File:South Africa Dr. Kgosi Letlape2.png|center]]
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===Veronique de Rugy, PhD===
===Solomon Rataemane===
*[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]
*[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]
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[[file:US Veronique de Rugy, PhD.png|center]]
[[File:South Africa Solomon Rataemane.png|center]]
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===Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D.===
='''South Korea'''=
*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders]
**Too few of my colleagues in public health research know people who smoke; they become abstractions to us. Existing smoking cessation aids have been available for many years; evidence suggests they don’t help most smokers. Let’s treat smokers like fellow human beings and provide them with a range of options they actually want and can live with (pun intended).
**Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D. - [https://www.drcherylolson.com/bio/ Bio and Photo]
**San Carlos, California
**Behavioral research consultant,
**Previously on Harvard Medical School psychiatry faculty
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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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===Daniel Wikler, Ph.D.===
===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]
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===[https://www.wpr.org/health-officials-look-cut-number-smokers-about-10m-2024 Michael Fiore]===
='''Spain'''=
"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."
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===Thomas Brandon, PhD, United States===
[[File:Thomas_Brandon_PhD.jpg|thumb|left|Moffitt Cancer Center]]<br>


 
===Manuel Linares Abad, PhD===
 
*Professor.
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. 
*Nurse specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
 
*Former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
“[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.”
*University of Jaen, Spain
 
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
[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://twitter.com/Vapingit/status/1454534518824636418/photo/1 SEE: Tweet w/graphic]
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===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]
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===Neal Benowitz===
*1996-1997 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
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===Fernando Fernández Bueno, MD===
===Sally Satel===
Oncological surgeon at the Hospital Central de la
*[https://twitter.com/slsatel Follow on Twitter]
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]
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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]]
===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]
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[[File:Spain Carmen Escrig 2.png|center]]
===Sheila Vakharia, PhD MSW===
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*[https://sheilavakharia.com/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/MyHarmReduction Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/MyHarmReduction/status/1539996789486534657 Quote Source]
===Miguel de la Guardia PhD===
Professor of Analytical Cemistry
University of Valencia
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:US Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW.png|center]]
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===Maria del Mar Sangüesa Jareño, MD===
===Carl V. Phillips, MPP, PhD===
Intensive Care Specialist
*[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]
University Hospital of Ceuta,
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
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[[file:US Carl V Phillips PhD.png|center]]
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===José David García Muñiz, MD, PhD===
===Dr. Brad Rodu===
Clinical Pharmacology and Internal Medicine
*[https://twitter.com/BradRodu Follow on Twitter]
Clinical Trials Coordinator, Principal Investigator
University Hospital of Ceuta
Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===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]]
===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]
<br>
<br>
===Helen Redmond, LCSW===
[[file:Spain Jose Miguel Rodriguez (1).png|center]]
*[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]]
===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
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Carrie Wade, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/CarrieLWade Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
 
===Francisco Garcia Sierra, MD.===
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>
===Bill Godshall===
[https://issuu.com/tiffanytandrade/docs/electroniccigarettes Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NYSVaporAssoc/status/913138800381095937 Photo Source]
<br>
<br>
[[file:US Bill Godshall.png|center]]
===Josep María Ramón Torrell, MD, PhD.===
<br>
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
 
University of Barcelona
===Robert Sklaroff===
Head of Clinical Prevention Research Group
*[https://twitter.com/rsklaroff Follow on Twitter]
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institut
[https://insidesources.com/dont-protect-cigarettes-by-banning-far-less-harmful-nicotine-vapor-products/ Source of name - need to research for a quote]
Head of Tobacco Prevention Service
Bellvitge Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
<br>
===Suzanne M. Colby, PhD===
*[https://vivo.brown.edu/display/scolby Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/suzanne_colby Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
*Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University
===Angel González Ureña, PhD===
*2019-2020 President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry.
Complutense University of Madrid
*[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>
*[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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===Vaughan Rees, PhD===
='''Singapore'''=
*[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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===Stephen F. Gambescia, PhD===
===Tan Kok Kuan, MD===
*[https://drexel.edu/cnhp/faculty/profiles/GambesciaStephen/ Bio and Photo] / [https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2017/01/e-cigarettes_1.html Quote Source]
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>
 
===Andrew John da Roza===
Psychotherapist - Addictions
Promises Health Care Pte. Ltd.
Singapore
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
 
='''Sweden'''=
 
 
===[https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2017-06-14_snus-appeal-letter.html Professor Tony Axéll]===
*find quote
<br>
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[[file:US Stephen F. Gambescia, PhD.png|center]]
 
===Curt Enzell===
*[https://snusochtandsticksmuseum.se/en/history/snus/the-inventor-of-the-portion-snus-interview-with-curt-enzell/ Quote Source]
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===Joel Nitzkin, MD===
===KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD===
*[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://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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[[File:Sweden KARL FAGERSTRÖM PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Anders Milton MD, PhD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://sobrera.com/board-of-directors/ Bio and Photo]
<br>
[[File:Sweden Anders Milton MD, PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Lars Ramström PhD===
[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://ethra.co/partners/scientific-partners Bio and Photo]
<br>
[[File:Sweden Lars Ramström PhD.png|center]]
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='''Switzerland'''=
 
 
===Gizelle Baker===
*[https://twitter.com/GizelleBaker Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
 
===Jean-François Etter, PhD===
*[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]
<br>
 
===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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[[File:Switzerland Moira Gilchrist PhD.png|center]]
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===Tikki Elka Pang, PhD===
Former Director,
Research Policy & Cooperation,
WHO, Geneva
Switzerland
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>
 
===Marina Suvakov===
*PMI
<br>
 
='''Tunisia'''=
 
 
===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:Tunisia Fares Mili MD CTTS NCTTP.png|center]]
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='''United Arab Emirates'''=
 
 
===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]
<br>
[[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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===Cother Hajat, MBBS PhD FFPH FRCP===
*[https://twitter.com/CotherHajat Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
 
='''United States'''=
 
 
===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]
<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]]
<br>
 
===Jerome Adams, MD, MPH===
*[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]
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[[file:US Jerome Adams, MD, MPH.png|center]]
<br>
===Jonathan H. Adler, JD===
*[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]
<br>
[[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]]
<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]
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[[file:US Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS.png|center]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>
 
===Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA===
*[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 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 ]]
<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]
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[[file:US Alex Azar JD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===David J. K. Balfour, DSc===
*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]
<br>
<br>
===Scott Ballin, JD===
*[https://gtnf.org/scott-ballin Photo and Bio:] / [https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/92D1F9E7-9D6A-41AB-B79C-DF2122A5340A Quote Source]
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[[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).]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[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.]]
<br>
 
===Neal Benowitz===
*1996-1997 [https://www.srnt.org/page/Presidents President, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco]
<br>
<br>
===Aaron Biebert, BS===
*[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 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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===Chelsea Boyd===
*[https://twitter.com/BeforeChelsea Follow on Twitter]
*(Disclosures...)
<br>
<br>
 
===Professor Neil Boyd===
*[https://icclr.org/vaci/people/advisory-committee/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/NeilBoydSFU/status/1590351959974117378 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NeilBoydSFU Follow on Twitter]
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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]]
<br>
===Jeffrey Brandes===
*[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]
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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]
<br>
[[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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===Susan Cameron, MBA===
*[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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===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]]
<br>
 
===Representative Julie A. Casimiro===
*[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>
[[file:US Representative Julie A. Casimiro.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Azim Chowdhury, JD===
*[https://twitter.com/ECIGattorney Follow on Twitter]
*Disclosure
<br>
<br>
 
===Gal Cohen, PhD===
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/gcohen/ Photo and Bio] / [https://www.healthworkscollective.com/future-e-cigarettes-world-public-health/ Quote Source]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>
===Ari Cohn, JD===
*[https://aricohn.com/#about Photo and Bio] / [https://twitter.com/AriCohn Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/AriCohn/status/1629213573040816129 Quote source]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>
===Suzanne M. Colby, PhD===
*[https://vivo.brown.edu/display/scolby Bio and Photo] / [https://twitter.com/suzanne_colby 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]
<br>
<br>
 
===James Colgrove, PhD, MPH===
*[https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/jc988 Photo and Bio] / [https://www.thecre.com/tpsac/?p=2666 Quote Source]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>
===Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD, MPH===
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Quote Source] / [https://education.musc.edu/MUSCApps/facultydirectory/Cummings-Kenneth Bio and Photo]
<br>
[[file:US Kenneth Michael Cummings PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Brittani Cushman (TPB) spelling?===
*(Disclosure)
<br>
<br>
 
===Cristine Delnevo, PhD, MPH, FAAHB===
*[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]
<br>
[[file:US Christine Delnevo.png|center]]
<br>
 
===David Dobbins, JD, MPH===
*[https://tobaccoreporter.com/2022/12/01/reality-check-3/ Source of Quote] / [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-dobbins-51a0794/ Source of Photo]
<br>
[[file:US David Dobbins JD MPH.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Clifford E. Douglas, J.D===
*[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]:
<br>
[[file:US Clifford Douglas JD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===David L. Eaton PhD===
*[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]
<br>
[[file:US David L Eaton Phd.png|center|alt=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]]
<br>
 
===Allan Erickson===
*No Photo found / [https://www.tobaccoreform.org/#takeaction Bio] / [https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20171006_4/ Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:US Allan Erickson.png|center]]
<br>
 
===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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===Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH===
*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]
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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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===David S. Fink, PhD, MPH===
*[https://davidsfink.com/ Bio] / [https://twitter.com/DavidSFink Follow on Twitter] / [https://twitter.com/DavidSFink/status/1196473031553638400 Quote Source]
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[[file:US David S. Fink, PhD, MPH.png|center|alt=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]]
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===Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA===
*[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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===Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr.)===
*[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]
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[[file:US Steve Forbes.png|center|alt=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]]
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===Jonathan Foulds 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]
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===Tom Frieden, MD, MPH===
*[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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[[file:US Tom Frieden, MD, MPH.png|center|alt=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]]
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===Abigail S. Friedman 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]
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===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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===Charles A. Gardner, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/ChaunceyGardner Follow on Twitter]
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===Rob Gebelhoff, BA===
*[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]
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[[file:US Rob Gebelhoff.png|center|alt=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]]
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===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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===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.
[[file:US Joe Gitchell.png|center]]
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===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]
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===Will Godfrey===
*Founder Filter
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===Bill Godshall===
[https://issuu.com/tiffanytandrade/docs/electroniccigarettes Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/NYSVaporAssoc/status/913138800381095937 Photo Source]
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[[file:US Bill Godshall.png|center]]
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===Dr. Scott Gottlieb===
*[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]
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===Sharon H. Green, PhD, MPH===
*[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]
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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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===Marc Gunther===
*[https://twitter.com/MarcGunther Follow on Twitter]
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===Jené Gutierrez, MA===
*[https://catapult.co/jenegutierrez Photo and Bio] / [https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/actually-vaping-is-cool/ Quote Source]
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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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===Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, BS===
*[https://twitter.com/DrScottHadland Follow on Twitter] / [https://www.bumc.bu.edu/care/faculty/scott-hadland/ Photo and Bio]
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===Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD===
*[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]
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===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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===Dr. Cheryl Healton===
*[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]
*“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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===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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===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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===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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===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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===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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===[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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===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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===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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===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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===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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===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]
<br>
[[file:US Laura Leigh Oyler 3.png|center]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[file:US Amanda Palmer PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===[https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5105003/ Tommy J Payne, JD]===
*[https://collectio.ecu.edu/chronicles/People/Tommy-Joe-Payne Bio]
<br>
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
<br>
 
===Michael F. Pesko, PhD===
*[https://twitter.com/mikepesko Follow on Twitter] / Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Source of Quote]
<br>
[[file:US Michael Pesko PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[file:US Carl V Phillips PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
<br>
===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]
<br>
[[file:US Helen Redmond.png|center]]
<br>
 
===Vaughan Rees, PhD===
*[https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/vaughan-rees/ Bio and Photo] / [https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/MJ20p16.shtml Quote Source]
<br>
[[file:US Vaughan Rees PhD 2.png|center]]
<br>
===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]
<br>
<br>
===Dr. Brad Rodu===
*[https://twitter.com/BradRodu Follow on Twitter]
<br>
<br>
===Jed Rose (Title?)===
*[https://roseresearchcenter.com/dr-jed-rose/ Bio]
<br>
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[file:US Veronique de Rugy, PhD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[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]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[file:US Steven A. Schroeder MD.png|center]]
<br>
 
===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]
<br>
[[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=
 
===[https://twitter.com/soar_dr/status/1783474267918626947 Dr Kirstie Soar]===
 
===2024: [https://thebftonline.com/2024/04/18/employing-tobacco-harm-reduction-as-a-public-health-policy-to-drive-down-smoking-rates-in-nigeria-ghana-and-cameroon/ Employing tobacco harm reduction as a public health policy to drive down smoking rates in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon]===
 
===2024: [https://filtermag.org/veterans-smoking-cessation/ To Save Veterans’ Lives, the VA Must Innovate on Smoking Cessation]===
 
===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]===
 
===[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://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://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]===
 
===[https://www.live5news.com/2023/05/11/musc-researching-effects-e-cigarettes-cigarette-smokers/ MUSC researching effects of e-cigarettes on cigarette smokers]===


===Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS===
===[https://twitter.com/jan_nolta/status/1655614466946654214 Dr. Jan Nolta]===
*[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]
*...if people switch to e-cigs instead of smoking, that’s a far better choice.
<br>
[[file:US Jasjit S Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS.png|center]]
<br>


===Jason Osborne===
===[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.facebook.com/osborne4nh/posts/2431511483739590 Photo and 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.
*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]
*[https://twitter.com/ALewerMBE/status/1650878331401695233 Tweet]
<br>
[[file:US Jason Osborne.png|center]]
<br>


===Arielle Selya===
===[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://twitter.com/ArielleSelya Follow on Twitter]
*(Disclosures.....)
<br>


<br>
===[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]===
===Chelsea Boyd===
*[https://twitter.com/BeforeChelsea Follow on Twitter]
*(Disclosures...)
<br>


<br>
===MP Gareth Johnson===
*[https://twitter.com/TheIBVTA/status/1190253005586780165 Quote Source] / [https://twitter.com/GarethJohnsonMP Follow on Twitter]


===Jeffrey Brandes===
===[https://theconversation.com/how-bad-is-vaping-and-should-it-be-banned-197913 How bad is vaping and should it be banned?]===
*[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://twitter.com/ClancyBrigid Follow on Twitter]
<br>
[[file:US Jeffrey Brandes AA BS Senator.png|center]]
<br>


='''Venezuela'''=
===[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]===


===[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]===


===Natasha A. de Herrera, PhD===
===[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]===
Clinical Psychology
Centro Medico Docente la Trinidad
Psychiatric Unit
Smoking Cessation Clinic
Caracas
Venezuela
*[https://clivebates.com/documents/WHOCOP9LetterOct2021-EN.pdf Source of name, need to find their own quote]
<br>


='''Statements by Multiple Parties'''=
===[https://thrsummitmadrid.org/speakers-biographies/ Spain]===


===[https://mb.com.ph/2023/01/31/its-combustion-in-cigarettes-that-kills-not-nicotine/ It’s combustion in cigarettes that kills, not nicotine]===


===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://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2022/oct/23/letters-break-silence-on-child-abuse See Letter: The benefits of vaping]===
<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>


=Suggestions to add to this page=
===[https://caphraorg.net/caphra-expert-advisory-group/ CAPHRA Expert Advisory Group]===


===[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 Two from Canada]===
===[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 Two from Canada]===
===[https://www.linkedin.com/in/adebisi-yusuff-adebayo/ ADEBISI Yusuff Adebayo]===
*(CASA Board - Africa) Nigeria/UK
===Dr. Kgosi Letlape - Physician and health care leader from South Africa.===
===Professor Mihaela Răescu - Dentist and oral health expert===


===[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 Tony Axéll]===
===[https://apthrmedia.org/quotations/ APTHRMedia – tobacco harm reduction archive]===
 
===[https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2017-06-14%20snus-appeal-letter.html Associate Professor Coral Gartner]===
 
===[https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2017-06-14_snus-appeal-letter.html Professor Dr Michael Kunze]===
 
===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.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2021/09/29/crucial-step-in-tobacco-harm-reduction CRUCIAL STEP IN TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION]===
===[https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2021/09/29/crucial-step-in-tobacco-harm-reduction CRUCIAL STEP IN TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION]===
[https://observatoireprevention.org/author/dr-martin-juneau/ Canada]
[https://observatoireprevention.org/author/dr-martin-juneau/ Canada]
===Sec. Azar (need to find original source, might be a youtube video) [https://vaportechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/07-SCHRIVER-Voices-for-Vaping-v4-2.pdf VTA Graphic] and [https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/testimony/SB1009_TESTIMONY_CPH_02-13-19_.PDF Hawaii Graphic]===


===[https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-who-report-on-nicotine-and-tobacco-products/ expert reaction to WHO report on nicotine and tobacco products]===
===[https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-who-report-on-nicotine-and-tobacco-products/ expert reaction to WHO report on nicotine and tobacco products]===
===[https://publichealth.gsu.edu/profile/michaeleriksen/ Michael Erikson]===


===[http://www.tobaccoreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Executive-Summary-Report-Ending-Cigarette-Use-by-Adults.pdf Ending Cigarette Use By Adults In A Generation Is Possible]===  
===[http://www.tobaccoreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Executive-Summary-Report-Ending-Cigarette-Use-by-Adults.pdf Ending Cigarette Use By Adults In A Generation Is Possible]===  
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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===


===[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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===[https://sciencecig.wordpress.com/supporters/ M.O.V.E.]===
===[https://sciencecig.wordpress.com/supporters/ M.O.V.E.]===


===Dr. Derek Yach===
*“We’ve been very clear that we support provisions that children should never vape or smoke. However, our main objective is to help adult smokers quit by making cessation aids accessible and to support adult smokers switching to approved harm reduction products. These include snus, e-cigarettes, heated-tobacco products and nicotine pouches,” [https://tobaccoreporter.com/2021/02/01/wake-up-call/ says Yach]. “In the long term, tackling cessation together with harm reduction is the only way to bring smoking rates down relatively soon. If today’s adult smokers quit or switch, even into their fifties or sixties, they will see improvements in their quality of life.”


===[https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2013/12/electronic-cigarette-quotes.html Quotes]===
===[https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2013/12/electronic-cigarette-quotes.html Quotes]===

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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

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  • 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

Follow on Twitter / Quote Source / Bio


Dr Annie Madden AO

Source of name

Professor Lisa Maher AM

Source of name

Associate Professor Victoria Manning

Source of name

Dr Kristen McCarter

Photo and Bio / Quote Source / Follow on Twitter


Associate Professor Mike McDonough

Source of name

Colin Mendelsohn, MB BS

Source: Bio, Photo, and Quote / Follow on Twitter

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

Source of name

Dr Peter Parry

Source of name

Fiona Patten MP

Follow on Twitter

Mr Garth Popple

Source of name

Evert Rauwendaal

Source of name

Professor Robyn Richmond

Source of name

Professor Alison Ritter AO FASSA

Source of name

Dr Fares Samara

Source of name

Professor Julian Savulescu

Source of name

Dr Catherine Silsbury

Source of name

Kathryn Steadman, PhD

Photo and Bio / Quote Source

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

Source of name

Dr Ingrid van Beek AM

Source of name

Dr Thomas Vandeleur

Source of name

Gino Vumbaca OAM

Source of name

Dr Brian Walker MLC

Quote Source / Follow on Twitter

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

Former Executive Director, NCD Alliance - Former Director, Quit Victoria, Source of name, need to find their own quote

Professor Ian Webster AO

Source of name

Ian Webster AO

Source of name

Dr Megan Weir

Source of name

Associate Professor Martin Weltman

Source of name

Associate Professor Scott Wilson

Source of name

Dr. Alex Wodak AM

Quote Source / Bio and Photo / Follow on Twitter

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

Source of name

David Sweanor, JD

Quote Source / Bio and Photo

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

Quote Source / Bio and Photo / Follow on Twitter


Emma V Beard



John Britton, MD

Quote Source / Bio and Photo

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

  • Disclosure: BAT


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

  • Quote Source / Bio and Photo / 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.



Martin Dockrell




Katherine "Katie" East, PhD

Quote and Graphic / Follow on Twitter / Bio


Dr Matthew Evison



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

Photo and Quote Source / Follow on Twitter

Benjamin Human

Source of name

Sarah Jackson, PhD, MSc



Martin Jarvis ODE, PhD

Quote Source / Bio and Photo


Mark Jenkinson MP



Patricia Kovacevic, JD



Sir Norman Lamb

Graphics Source / Follow on Twitter


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

Quote Source / Bio / Follow on Twitter


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

  • Chief Executive of Leicestershire Partnership Trust
  • Quote Source
  • “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


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

Quote Source / Bio


Caitlin Notley, PhD



David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FSB, FMedSci

Quote Source / Bio and Photo / Follow on Twitter


Dr Kirstie Soar

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


Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan

Snus Forum Interview

Debbie Robson, PhD



Louise Ross



Dr Kathryn Scott

  • 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.”


Lion Shahab, PhD CPsychol AFBPsS

  • Quote Source / Bio / Photo / 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.



Erikas Simonavičius, PhD


Professor Gerry Stimson

  • Follow on Twitter / 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.


Harry Tattan-Birch, MSc

Bio

Eve Taylor

Quote Source

Frances Thirlway, PhD, MSc



Dr Russell Thorpe

Quote source

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



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Prof. Dirk Ziebolz



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Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH

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Dr Erick Estrada

Family doctor and surgeon. Focused on preventive medicine



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G. Karl Snæbjörnsson, MD



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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



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Pietro Fiocchi

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Riccardo Polosa



Umberto Tirelli MD

Professor Director, Cancer Center Clinica Mede Sacile


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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


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Joseph Magero, BBA



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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



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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



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Dr Ashar Ahmed

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Peru

Dr Omar Ghiglione

Venezuela, Peru Peripheral Vascular Surgeon.



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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



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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

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  • 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

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Peter Killeen PhD



Brian King

Jaron Hoani King


Bethea A Kleykamp, MA, PhD

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  • 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

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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


2018: Letter from seventy-two specialists in nicotine science, policy and practice


????: Statement by 28 Medical Professionals in Latin America


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Finland

Minister Duclos and Minister Bennett released a joint statement to mark National Non-Smoking Week

MUSC researching effects of e-cigarettes on cigarette smokers

Dr. Jan Nolta

  • ...if people switch to e-cigs instead of smoking, that’s a far better choice.

Britain must stand up to the WHO on vaping to save millions of lives

  • 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.
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E-cigarettes Volume 667: debated on Thursday 31 October 2019

India needs evidence-based harm reduction strategies: Dr. Peter Harper

MP Gareth Johnson

How bad is vaping and should it be banned?

Thai Committee on Public Health Suggests E-cigarette Regulation and to End Ban on Vaping

Swedish MEP Johan Nissinen: Sweden should do more for snus in the EU

Women power: researchers and experts who changed the THR field

Spain

It’s combustion in cigarettes that kills, not nicotine

See Letter: The benefits of vaping

CAPHRA Expert Advisory Group

Two from Canada

Delon Human

APTHRMedia – tobacco harm reduction archive

2022 LESS HARM: INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION FOR A SMOKE-FREE SPAIN

  • Signed by 170 experts

Doctors, scientists ask Marcos to sign vape bill

Maybe organization, too? SMOKING CESSATION: VAPE OR NOT VAPE?

2019 E-cigarettes need to be regulated, not banned: Dr Patrick Basham Read more at: https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/policy/e-cigarettes-need-to-be-regulated-not-banned-dr-patrick-basham/72392936

expert reaction to Department of Health press release ‘e-cigarettes could be prescribed on the NHS in world first’

E-cig Summit UK 2021 speakers

A New International Commission of Experts Finds the Global Fight Against Smoking Has Stalled

CRUCIAL STEP IN TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION

Canada

expert reaction to WHO report on nicotine and tobacco products

Ending Cigarette Use By Adults In A Generation Is Possible

Letter with names to research

More names to research for positive statements

Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders

More names on this doc

World No Tobacco Day: Here's why WHO’s approach to tobacco cessation needs an overhaul

The Truth Initiative, too, once embraced harm reduction. Its former board chairman, Tom Miller, Iowa’s long-serving attorney general, still argues that e-cigarettes are a “means to saving millions of lives.” Cheryl Healton, its former CEO, and David Abrams, formerly executive director of the Schroeder National Institute of Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, which is housed at the Truth Initiative, are harm-reduction advocates. So is Steven Schroeder, for whom the institute is named. Found here

72 Statements to WHO

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