For example, a recent NIH announcement to fund research on smokeless tobacco, which is 98% safer than cigarettes, called for investigators to develop an evidence base to inform smokeless tobacco control efforts, and to develop effective ways to limit the spread and promote cessation of smokeless tobacco use. This prohibitionist mindset produces NIH-funded researchers who are hostile to tobacco harm reduction
The upshot of the new report Who Pays? from the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy is that low-income Minnesotans pay less in taxes (including income, sales, property, and excise taxes) than their counterparts in most other states, while high earners pay more
"Future studies should explore dose-specific risks, distinguishing between heavy and casual cannabis users, as well as the impact of different consumption methods," Dowling adds
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Transportation of enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean became the "Middle Passage" leg in a triangular trade between Africa, colonies in the Western Hemisphere, and Europe