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In an interview with AP reporter Michael Felberbaum, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler acknowledged the health benefits for cigarette smokers who switch to smokeless, dissolvables and/or e-cigarettes.
"Shifting to abstaining is a much better shift than shifting from one nicotine product to another, but there's no doubt that in terms of risk of death there are some advantages to that substitution."
Q&A: Former FDA Commissioner talks about tobacco - Westport News
Kessler also stated that the profit motive "obscures some of the science", but he failed to acknowledge that abstinence-only tobacco prohibition idealogues have grossly obscured lots of the science.
"Shifting to abstaining is a much better shift than shifting from one nicotine product to another, but there's no doubt that in terms of risk of death there are some advantages to that substitution."
Q&A: Former FDA Commissioner talks about tobacco - Westport News
Kessler also stated that the profit motive "obscures some of the science", but he failed to acknowledge that abstinence-only tobacco prohibition idealogues have grossly obscured lots of the science.
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