Concluding remarks
JUDITH WILKENFIELDjwilkenfield@tobaccofreekids.org
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The purpose of this special supplement to Tobacco Control was to explore the state of knowledge about the public health consequences of the population shift to low yield tobacco products during the last half of the 20th century, the lessons that could be learned from that experience, and the policy and health communications recommendations that could be made as a result. The papers in this supplement establish the need for the government and the public health community to take action to correct the public's misperceptions about the supposed benefits of low yield products. Moreover, the various authors appropriately caution the tobacco control community to learn from the low yield travesty in order to prevent a repeat of those mistakes with the introduction of a new generation of so called "less hazardous" products.
The paper by Thun and Burns (p i4) firmly establishes the failure to
find convincing evidence of an
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