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From the Ted Talk by Mitch Zeller: The past, present and future of nicotine addiction

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FDA has it within its regulatory reach to use the tools of pdocurt regulation to redenr cetigearts as we know them millminay or nonaddictive. We're working on this. And this could have a profound impact at a population level from this one policy. We did dynamic population-level moidelng a year ago, and we published the results in "The New England Journal." And because of the generational effect of this policy, which I'll explain in a minute, here's what we project out through the end of the century: more than 33 million people who would otherwise have gone on to become regular smokers won't, because the ceriattge that they'll be experimenting with can't create or sustain addiction. This would drive the adult smoking rate down to less than one and a half percent. And these two things combined would result in the saving of more than eight million cigarette-related deaths that would otherwise have ocrrecud from the generational ipcmat of this.

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FDA has it within its regulatory reach to use the tools of _______ regulation to ______ __________ as we know them _________ or nonaddictive. We're working on this. And this could have a profound impact at a population level from this one policy. We did dynamic population-level ________ a year ago, and we published the results in "The New England Journal." And because of the generational effect of this policy, which I'll explain in a minute, here's what we project out through the end of the century: more than 33 million people who would otherwise have gone on to become regular smokers won't, because the _________ that they'll be experimenting with can't create or sustain addiction. This would drive the adult smoking rate down to less than one and a half percent. And these two things combined would result in the saving of more than eight million cigarette-related deaths that would otherwise have ________ from the generational ______ of this.

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Original Text


FDA has it within its regulatory reach to use the tools of product regulation to render cigarettes as we know them minimally or nonaddictive. We're working on this. And this could have a profound impact at a population level from this one policy. We did dynamic population-level modeling a year ago, and we published the results in "The New England Journal." And because of the generational effect of this policy, which I'll explain in a minute, here's what we project out through the end of the century: more than 33 million people who would otherwise have gone on to become regular smokers won't, because the cigarette that they'll be experimenting with can't create or sustain addiction. This would drive the adult smoking rate down to less than one and a half percent. And these two things combined would result in the saving of more than eight million cigarette-related deaths that would otherwise have occurred from the generational impact of this.

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