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Comments for the proposed regulation on limiting nicotine content in pouches
Introduction About me
I am writing to you as a public health scientist, researcher, and cardiologist, deeply committed to
advancing public health and promoting evidence-based policies for tobacco control. I have been
following with great interest the ongoing evaluation of the legislative framework for tobacco control
undertaken by the Danish authorities and as a researcher I wish to contribute to the current public
.
I am a physician, public health expert and researcher on tobacco harm reduction, focusing on
alternative to smoking nicotine products. Since 2012, I have published more than 100 studies in
international scientific journals, and have presented in more than 70 international conferences. My
research has covered all relevant areas of tobacco harm reduction, including product safety, efficacy
as smoking substitutes, clinical studies, population surveys (including analyses of the Eurobarometer
and large US adult and youth population surveys), patterns of nicotine product use and policy
evaluation and recommendations.
I was the handling editor and one of the authors of the first scientific book on electronic cigarettes
published by Elsevier USA in 2016, author of a book chapter for a German book (two editions) about
electronic cigarettes and author of a chapter in a textbook of toxicology. In November 2019, I was
declared as a Highly Cited Researcher 2019 by Web of Science. This is a list of 6200 scientists (out of
a total of 9 million researchers analyzed) who had the highest scientific impact worldwide in the past
decade (2008-2018).
I have with no commercial or other vested interests in tobacco, tobacco harm reduction or the
pharmaceutical industry and I do not work or provide services for any commercial entity. My CV is
available here and my published studies are available on PubMed.