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Nitzkin on the benefits of e-cigarettes

by R.J. Lehmann
Jan 23, 2014
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issues: Tobacco Harm Reduction
Oklahoma City’s KFOR NewsChannel 4 carried this report on the Jan. 21 joint hearing of the Oklahoma Senate Committee on Health and Human Services and the Oklahoma House Committee on Public Health on e-cigarettes and the value of tobacco harm reduction. The included a snippet of the testimony offered by R Street Senior Fellow Dr. Joel Nitzkin.

“If we are going to do better in terms of reducing illness, death and addiction from cigarettes and other nicotine products, we need a fundamentally new approach,” Nitzkin told the study group.

Watch the full report below.

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