| What to Do About Vaping??? |
Erika Trapl, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Associate Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods |
Friday February 14, 2020
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Dampeer Room
Kelvin Smith Library*
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
For a policy analyst, vaping is a problem from hell. What is known, not known, or needs to be known? And how should risks be addressed?
As of mid-2019, the available evidence strongly suggested that vaping should be much less hazardous than “combustible cigarettes.” It eliminates the components that had been clearly linked to lung disease, and some of what seems to create cardiac risk. British public health authorities, therefore, leaned towards seeing vaping as an opportunity for massive reduction of tobacco-related harm.
Yet vaping is highly addictive, creating economic costs at a minimum. Moreover, why should people be allowed to consume a product (or companies be allowed to market a product) that makes them dependent, and puts objects in a very vulnerable part of their body, with very little knowledge of the risks involved? The precautionary principle strongly suggests that vaping should be discouraged – and that has been the dominant position of U.S. public health authorities.
How does one judge likely harm reduction vs. sensible precaution?
Some people may believe the dilemma went away with the outbreak of vaping-caused illness and deaths that first became reported to the CDC on August 1, 2019. Yet that appears to be associated mainly with specific products, particularly those with THC. One approach could be to regulate vaping products much more strictly. But how could that be done, with the genie, so to speak, far out of the bottle? Join us as one of CWRU’s leading tobacco researchers shares her thoughts.
All best regards,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Dr. Erika Trapl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. She is also Associate Director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods. Dr. Trapl is trained as an epidemiologist and has been conducting health behavior intervention research for over 15 years. Her research focuses on understanding the influence of the physical and social environment on health behaviors to inform interventions and policy that can ultimately reduce chronic disease, particularly around tobacco use.
Where We Meet
The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.
* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.
Parking Possibilities
The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
February 21: Are Nano-Particles the New Asbestos? With Katharine Van Tassell, J.D., Visiting Professor of Law.
February 28: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Record in Foreign Development. With Julia C. Strauss, Ph.D., Professor of Chinese Politics, University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.
March 6: The Racial Geography of Cleveland Heights. With Jessica A. Kelley, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology.
March 13: Spring Break
March 20: Taking Away the Car Keys (from seniors). With Weidi Qin, MSW, MPH, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
March 27: China’s Tibet Dilemma at a Crossroads. With Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ph.D., John Reynolds Harkness Professor in Anthropology and Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet.
April 3: Creating Army Officers for the 21st Century. With Lt. Col. Brian Ferguson, Professor of Military Science, John Carroll University.
April 10: What’s the Beef? The Controversy Over Health Effects of Red Meat. With Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.
April 17: Targeted Assassinations, and Other Red or Not-So-Red Lines. With Shannon French, Ph.D., Inamori Professor of Ethics and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence.
April 24: Regulating Content of Online Platforms. With Raymond Ku, J.D., Professor and Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar, CWRU School of Law. |
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February 9, 2020
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Upcoming Events
A Slow But Steady Demise For Tax Exceptionalism
The Norman A. Sugarman Tax Lecture. A discussion with Kristin Hickman, J.D., Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law, and Associate Director, Corporate Institute, at the University of Minnesota Law School, Monday February 10, 2020, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59), CWRU School of Law, 11075 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106.
Some courts and commentators have suggested that tax law is so different from other areas of law that general requirements, doctrines, and norms of administrative law and procedure do not and should not apply to the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service when they administer the tax laws. Other courts and commentators strongly disagree with this notion of tax exceptionalism.
This lecture, by a distinguished scholar of both administrative law and tax law, examines the growing body of case law and other governmental efforts that are driving tax regulatory actions and administrative practices increasingly to conform to general administrative law requirements, doctrines and norms.
Professor Kristin E. Hickman is a leading authority in the fields of tax administration and administrative law. Her articles on these topics have appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among other publications. She co-authors the Administrative Law Treatise and a casebook on federal administrative law with Richard J. Pierce, Jr. Her scholarly work has been cited several times in opinions of the United States Supreme Court and as well as regularly in lower court judicial opinions and court briefs.
Building the Post-1949 State in China and Taiwan
A Global Currents Discussion with Julia Strauss, Ph.D., Professor of Chinese Politics, SOAS, University of London, Thursday February 27, 2020, 4:00 p.m., Tinkham Veale University Center, Room 134, 11038 Bellflower Rd., Cleveland, OH 44106. This program is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin. Refreshments will be provided.
Building a new state is hard. A governing apparatus must be built, a populace convinced (not always willingly!) and a sense of what the state is and how it should act must make it intelligible to both its agents and citizens or subjects. How a state is built shapes its future – and is shaped by the past. Professor Strauss shows how somewhat similar challenges and inherited understandings led to both commonalities and differences in how authority was consolidated on both sides of the Straits. That has lessons for understanding both China and state-building.
Julia C. Strauss joined the faculty of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 1994, and currently serves as Professor of Chinese Politics. From 2002 – 2011 she also served as editor of The China Quarterly. Professor Strauss earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 and has published widely on 20th century state building and institutional development in China and Taiwan. This includes her new book, State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign and Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2019) as well as her previous Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940 (Oxford University Press, 1998). She co-edited, with Donal B. Cruise O’Brien, Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2007). As part of her work with The China Quarterly, Professor Strauss also co-edited special volumes on China and Africa, China and Latin America, Gender in contemporary China, The History of the People’s Republic, and Culture in the Contemporary PRC.
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