Univerisity of Michigan faculty members Ken Warner and Cliff Douglas have worked for decades to combat smoking.
Warner, 75, an economist and former dean of Michigan’s public health school, wrote dozens of papers on tobacco control and edited a landmark Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health.
Douglas, 64, a lawyer, led the campaign to ban smoking on commercial airline flights and connected tobacco-industry whistleblowers to Congress and the media.
The cause to which they have devoted themselves has saved millions of lives. As recently as 1980, more than one in three Americans smoked. Today, about one in eight currently smoke. That’s a monumental victory for public health.
Lately, though, Warner and Douglas have taken on a new and vexing challenge. They want to bring the tobacco control community together around the deeply divisive topic of e-cigarettes. In a paper in the journal Health Affairs, they put forth a policy agenda that is designed to prevent kids from vaping while making e-cigarettes available to adults who want to use them to quit smoking.
Marc Gunther – Filter – 2022-11-16.
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