The past, present and future of nicotine addiction | Mitch Zeller

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🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, killing more people each year than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murder and suicide combined. Follow health policy expert Mitch Zeller into the murky depths of the tobacco industry as he details the sordid history of nicotine addiction -- and invites us to imagine a world where policy change helps stop people from becoming addicted in the first place.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:11.8	You're listening to Ted Health.
0:12.8	I'll be honest with you, I hadn't heard much about cigarettes in recent years.
0:17.6	At all.
0:18.6	We know these days that smoking kills and smoking rates are at historic lows.
0:24.6	But in today's talk from Ted X Mid-Atlantic in 2019, Health Policy Expert Mitch Celler
0:30.0	surprised me with the reality of tobacco's continued prevalence today.
0:35.2	He may surprise you too.
0:37.2	Hey, listener, a quick favor.
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0:44.6	a few minutes to respond.
0:46.3	Please visit survey.prx.org slash health to take the survey today.
0:52.8	I'm going to tell you a story about how the deadliest consumer product imaginable came
1:06.3	to be.
1:07.3	It's the cigarette.
1:10.0	The cigarette is the only consumer product that, when used as intended, will kill half
1:15.7	of all long-term users prematurely later in life.
1:19.8	But this is also a story about the work that we're doing at the Food and Drug Administration,
1:24.5	and specifically the work that we're doing to create the cigarette of the future that
1:30.2	is no longer capable of creating or sustaining addiction.
1:35.2	A lot of people think that the tobacco problem or the smoking problem has been solved in
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