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The Public Health Cost of FDA’s Tobacco Review Delays
When avoidable delays in reviewing cigarette alternatives prolong smoking, they cost lives. Quitting reduces the risk of premature death, while continuing to smoke sustains exposure to the hazards responsible for smoking-related disease. Because cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke cause more than 480,000 deaths annually in the United States, the years-long delay documented in a September...
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The Public Health Cost of Eliminating Race and Ethnicity Data
This is bigger than a singular elimination of race and ethnicity questions. It could accelerate the second wave of widespread reductions to demographic data, leaving public health officials with even less information to deliver better health outcomes for all Americans.