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Issues in the News

1. HEALTH

Research finds that many cigarette smokers are unaware of the wide range of options available to those who are trying to quit.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on how public health advocates have discouraged cigarette smokers from moving to safer tobacco products. 

2. TECHNOLOGY

City workers fear identity theft as the personnel records of 13,000 Washington, D.C. government employees are stolen.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews and Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on private solutions to data security threats.

3. MEDICAL

Bristol-Myers Squibb declines to make its anti-cancer drug Erbitux available in Canada because of national price controls.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on how foreign price controls could undermine the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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