Scoring Endgame | Former CDC Tobacco Control Director Talks Battle Over Vaping | RegWatch
May 06, 2024 by regulatorwatch.com
Scoring Endgame | Former CDC Tobacco Control Director Talks Battle Over Vaping | RegWatch
As the longest-serving director of the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health and founding Dean of Georgia State University’s School of Public Health, Dr. Michael P. Eriksen is a veteran tobacco control warrior and national leader in the fight to end smoking-related disease and death. In this episode of RegWatch, we ask Dr. Eriksen about the crucial years when big tobacco was exposed for deceiving the public, tobacco control’s reaction to the explosive popularity of e-cigarettes, the FDA’s current regulation of the U.S. vaping market, and what he thinks about public health’s war on vaping.