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Letter from Jennifer Hill

To Wayne Harris: ‘I Disagree’

I appreciate former Deputy Chief Wayne Harris’ February 22 letter to the editor in response to our February 8 column on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed ban on the manufacturing and selling of menthol cigarettes. Mr. Harris claims the bans are ineffective, unscientific, unjust, and reactionary, but the evidence doesn’t bear that out.






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