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Joelle M Lester1, Stacey Younger Gagosian1
1Joelle M. Lester, J.D., is the Lead Senior Staff Attorney for Strategic Initiatives with the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, a program of the Public Health Law Center. Joelle oversees programs that convene national thought leaders around bold policy options to end the tobacco epidemic and train and support state tobacco program managers around the country, and also leads the Consortium's FDA Tobacco Project. Joelle also provides legal technical assistance and litigation support on a wide range of tobacco control policy issues to public health professionals, attorneys, and advocates around the country. Joelle received her law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, located in Madison, Wisconsin. Stacey Younger Gagosian has worked in politics and policy for 20 years. Currently, she is the Director of Public Policy at Truth Initiative, which focuses on smoking cessation and prevention policies. From 2003 until 2008, she was the Legislative Associate at the National Breast Cancer Coalition, successfully working to secure funding for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program and passing the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act. Previously, Ms. Gagosian worked on Capitol Hill in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Ms. Gagosian has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Abstract:
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, killing approximately 480,000 people each year. This crushing health burden falls disproportionately, and recent CDC data shows that large disparities in adult cigarette smoking remain. One factor in these disparities is the use of flavors. Menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products are used at higher rates by vulnerable populations including youth and young adults, African Americans, women, Hispanics and Asian Americans. This is no accident; the tobacco industry has long targeted these same groups. Given FDA's failure to act to ban flavored tobacco products, states and municipalities are considering taking matters into their own hands to protect their communities from these dangerous products. The authors will explore state and local authority to restrict the sales of these products and review the evidence base indicating that removing flavored tobacco products - and menthol combustible products in particular - from the market would significantly reduce the toll of illness and death caused by these products.
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