McGUIGAN: Tobacco harm reduction — no news or good snus?
As for the candor part, former Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer of Indiana, who is now a lobbyist; Dr. Joel Nitzkin, of the libertarian R Street Institute in Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Brad Rodu, of the University of Louisville and the Heartland Institute, each said in their presentations that they have received support from the American tobacco industry.
And, here’s the disarming part: A strong case was made from evidence, as Nitzkin summarized it, that “smokers … can reduce their risk of tobacco-attributable death by 98 percent by switching to a smoke-free product.”
