NIH Funding Stifles Tobacco Harm Reduction Research and Support in Academia
From: Heartland.org
As a pathologist working at two large medical centers, I have studied the effects of smoking on health for over 20 years. I’ve published scores of papers on the impressive benefits of switching from cigarettes to safer, non-combustible forms of tobacco (such as Swedish snus). This strategy – called tobacco harm reduction – has vast potential for improving public health.
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Individuals at the University of California San Francisco have engaged in an aggressive campaign against e-cigarettes (examples hereand here). Table 2 shows that they were awarded $12.5 million in 2014, with over half going to PI Stanton Glantz.
Table 2. NIH Support in Fiscal Year 2014 for Tobacco Projects to Faculty at the University of California San Francisco
