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Alex Norcia

  • Senior Manager, Regulatory Advocacy, Altria
Los Angeles, United States
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now: senior manager, earned media at altria. | still: writing. | views: mine. anorcia917@gmail.com.
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Tobacco Harm Reduction Reflections, as My Years of Reporting End

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Many people who vape, or are otherwise involved in tobacco harm reduction, will remember the summer of 2019. That was when Juul faced endless criticism from Congress—by October, the company had voluntarily stopped selling most of its flavored e-cigarettes even online—and the media became transfixed on a string of vaping-related illnesses throughout the United States.
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Smoking Deaths Sidelined in Biden’s State of the Union Address

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President Joe Biden was set to announce in his February 7 State of the Union (SOTU) address how he’d lead the charge to reduce the number of cancer deaths in the United States once and for all: by eliminating combustible cigarette use. News reports and a press call from the White House suggested that he’d make this statement as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, but it was left, it appears, on the cutting room floor. Biden himself did not bring it up.
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Safer-Nicotine Consumer Groups Have Almost No Funding Worldwide

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Consumer organizations advocating for tobacco harm reduction (THR) are often underfunded, led by volunteers, and still successful, according to a new study by the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction, a project of the UK-based organization Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC). The report identifies 52 active consumer groups around the world that advocate for safer nicotine products (SNPs) like vapes, snus, oral nicotine pouches and heated tobacco products (HTPs).
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