Recently, two dueling groups of public health experts wrote open letters to the World Health Organization regarding e-cigarettes. The first group saw e-cigarettes as a potentially valuable public health tool, the second group was much more skeptical. At the Stanford Health Policy Forum, we invited signatories from each side to debate e-cigarettes and the result was an extraordinarily thoughtful and civil exchange.

[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]

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Keith Humphreys is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and served as Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Obama Administration. @KeithNHumphreys