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E-Cigarettes and the Precautionary Principle: The limits of trying to
“first, do no harm” in a dangerous world

A Miles and Elena Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum

Lynn Kozlowski, Ph.D. – Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, University at Buffalo

Monday October 8, 2018, Noon – 1:00 p.m.
CWRU School of Law, Moot Courtroom (A59)
11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

The development and growing popularity of e-cigarettes has divided the tobacco control movement. Should we focus on risks such as that vaping could re-normalize tobacco use, be a gateway (especially for youth) to other products, and expose users to unknown chemicals? Or should we focus on evidence that vaping could save myriad lives by replacing traditional tobacco products? Lynn Kozlowski is one of the leading tobacco policy researchers in the country, a senior editor of Addiction and associate editor of Tobacco Control Journal, and in 2006 received a PAHO/WHO Tobacco Control Award for his work on “low tar” products.

This program is co-sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies; Law-Medicine Center; Master of Public Health Program; and the SAGES Program.

About Our Guest

Lynn Kozlowski was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan University from 1974 to 1979, when he moved to Canada. For 10 years he worked at the Addiction Research Foundation in Toronto, where he was a Senior Scientist and Head of their behavioral research program on tobacco use. He was also Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. In 1990, he moved to Penn State University where he was Professor and Head of Department of Biobehavioral Health in the College of Health and Human Development. Kozlowski has served on the Editorial Boards of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Journal of Substance Abuse and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. He is a Senior Editor of Addiction Journal, and an Associate Editor for Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal and for Tobacco Control Journal. In 2006, he moved to the University at Buffalo, to start the Department of Health Behavior. In 2008 he was appointed to Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions and served in that role until June 2014.