Will the new Biden administration choose science over politics? The commandment to “believe science” has become a rallying cry, one echoed by Joe Biden during his presidential campaign when he promised to “choose science over fiction.”
If that is true, his new administration should embrace tobacco harm -reduction, a public health strategy that, instead of the abstinence-only-approach, seeks to reduce the death and disease caused by combustible cigarettes by allowing smokers access to lower-risk alternatives.
It would be controversial with leaders in his own party. But, unless his commitment to science was just an empty slogan, Biden’s team should adopt tobacco harm reduction anyway.
As one of the original architects of the Drug War, Joe Biden isn’t exactly hip to the idea of government respecting adults’ choices while trying to mitigate the risks associated with those choices.
Michelle Minton – Competitive Enterprise Institute – Feb 22, 2021.
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