For several years, respected voices in the public health community have warned of a breakdown in trust in their profession if the dishonest, damaging and often vicious campaign against safer alternatives to smoking by some of their colleagues continues to misinform the public.
Prominent among those warning that public health’s credibility will suffer has been Dr. Michael Siegel, a visiting professor and a researcher in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
For more than 15 years, he has been lamenting the tobacco control industry’s increasing departure from the truth.
Siegel explained his concerns in an article from March 2019: “I believe that our movement has largely abandoned truth as a central value in our campaigns against vaping.” He continued, “Driven by an almost puritanical inability to accept the fact that a person could obtain pleasure from nicotine without it killing them, we have made the demonization of vaping the solitary goal of the movement, at the direct expense of what I always believed was our primary goal: to make smoking history.”
Martin Cullip – InsideSources – 2022-07-12
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