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Electronic Cigarette Industry Group
(ECIG)—
Anon-profit501c6association
of consumers, manufacturers, importers
and distributors of electronic cigarettes,
ECIG is advocating for fair regulation
of e-cigarettes. The organization works
with manufacturers, importers and
distributors of electronic cigarettes to
lobby for balanced state and federal
regulations and provides regulatory
news and compliance assistance to
its members. (
.
org;
,
888-943-8947)
A Who’s Who
of E-Cig ExpErts
Phil
Daman,
Esq./Daman
&
Associates—
Daman is the president
of SFATA (see above), as well as
an attorney and founding member
of Daman & Associates, LLC, a law firm
with offices in Los Angeles, Boston and
Philadelphia. Daman’s practice focuses
on counseling clients in various matters
involving the protection and use of their
intellectual property. He and the firm
are experienced in advising investors,
technologists,manufacturers, distributors
and purveyors of Personal Electronic
Vaporizing Units (PEVUs), including
electronic cigars and electronic cigarettes,
on transactional, litigation and regulatory
issues in the United States and abroad.
(
phillip.daman@
damanllc.com; 617-221-3737)
Dr. Joel Nitzkin—
Now a senior fellow in
tobacco policy for the R Street Institute,
a national think tank headquartered in
Washington, D.C., Nitzkin has been in
the private practice of public health as a
health policy consultant since the mid-
1990s. In 2007 while serving as co-chair
of the Tobacco Control Task Force of
the American Association of Public
Health Physicians, he played a lead role
in exploring policy options for reducing
tobacco-attributable illness. This effort
focused his attention on THR. In 2012,
Nitzkin made presentations on THR
and related issues to a variety of tobacco
industry, medical, public health and state
legislative audiences. He has also taken
action to place THR on the agenda of
the House of Delegates of the American
Medical Association.
;
; 202-525-5717)
Dr. Carl Phillips—
In 2012 Phillips
joined the board of CASAA in the
role of scientific director, merging his
public health research and education
organization, TobaccoHarmReduction.
org, into CASAA. Phillips oversees
most scientific communication from
CASAA. He spent most of his career
as a professor of public health science
and now works as an epidemiologic and
economic consultant along with being
chief economist for the Humane Society
of the United States. (
)
Professor Brad Rodu—
As a professor of
medicine at the University of Louisville,
Rodu holds an endowed chair in tobacco
harm reduction research, and is a member
of the James Graham Brown Cancer
Center at U of L. For the past 20 years,
he has been involved in research and
policy development regarding THR. He
wrote the book,
For Smokers Only: How
Smokeless Tobacco Can Save Your Life.
His
research is supported by unrestricted
grants from tobacco manufacturers
to the U of L and by the Kentucky
Research Challenge Trust Fund. (www.
rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com, brad.
Dr. Michael Siegel—
As a professor in
the Department of Community Health
Sciences, Boston University School
of Public Health, Siegel has 25 years
experience in the field of tobacco control.
He has been called an “enthusiastic
supporter of tobacco harm reduction and
a tireless exposer of tobacco myths” (via his
blog) that many in the e-cigarette world
look up to. (tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com;
617-638-5167)
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