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House panel hears pros, cons of smokeless tobacco

April 11, 2013
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issues: Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Substance Regulation, Tobacco Harm Reduction
originally published in State Journal-Register
From the State Journal-Register:

But Dr. Joel Nitzkin, a senior fellow at the conservative research group R Street Institute in Washington, D.C., said the mortality rate associated with smokeless tobacco products is 98 percent lower than the rate associated with cigarette smoking, the nation’s No. 1 cause of preventable death and the major cause of lung cancer and emphysema.

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