Tobacco Harm Reduction
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Mayor Muriel Bowser signed into law a ban on the sale of all flavored tobacco products in the District of Columbia, the latest in a long line of bans limiting the sale of tobacco. Though noble in…
WASHINGTON (July 28, 2021)— Though India has the second largest population of tobacco users in the world, e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco products are banned. The man responsible for this…
Press release: Why Harm Reduction is the Right Path Forward for India
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America may soon witness a watershed moment with regard to the country’s strategy on reducing tobacco-related illnesses. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is racing to meet a September 9…
From VapingPost:
“The proposed regulation would reduce the nicotine cap to 3 percent,” said Steven Greenhut, a resident senior fellow at the R Street Institute, in a blog post. “Currently,…
When it comes to government regulation, it’s sometimes hard to get the details right. There’s often a one-way ratchet effect, as officials continually push for new and tougher standards—even…
Testimony from: Chelsea Boyd, Harm Reduction Policy Fellow, R Street Institute
In OPPOSITION to R384-415, “ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE SUBSTANCE STANDARDS.”
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Last month, police in Ocean City, Md., tased, hog-tied and carried away a Black teenager for allegedly violating a vaping ban on the city’s boardwalk. A video of the incident quickly went viral…
Chair and members of the committee,
My name is Mazen Saleh and I am the interim director of integrated harm reduction policy for the R Street Institute (R Street), which is a nonprofit,…
On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, the House Committee on Oversight and the Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy will hold a hearing on youth vaping.
From the very beginning, R Street’s…