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Biography: Jeffrey E. Harris

Date: 18 Nov 1993 (est.)
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Harris, J.E.
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e Jeffrey E. Harris Page 9 BIOGRAPHY: :EFFREY E. HARRIS Jeffrey -. Harris,=.I.D., Ph.D., :s an economics professor at M.I.T. and=a primary-care internist a.t the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. His new book, DEADLY CHOICES: COPING WITH HEALTH RISKS IN EvERYDAY LIFE +Sasic-Booksi, helps consumers sort through the barrage of medical news about smoking, :aeight control, exercise, cholesterol, -bieast cancer, and sex and AIDS. His book chapter on cigarettes was the basis for a recent Wall Street Journal story tNov. 3, 19931 about new technologies for managing nicotine withdrawal. Dr. Harris last addressed members of the Ways and Means Committee in April, 1989_, in Savannah, Georgia, where he was an invited faculty member to the Committee's annual Issues Seminar on deficit reduction. Dr. Harris has served as a contributor and consulting editor to several Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Health. He authored Chapter 3i"Changes in Smoking- Attributable I•iortality"1 of the 1989 Report of the Surgeon General, in which 390,0=0-0 deaths were attributed to cigarette smoking in 1985. Dr. Harris is a member of the National Research Re•sources Advisory Council of the N.I.H., an appointment of the Secretary of Health & Human Services. He recently• advised the Consumer Product Safety Commission about toxicity testing of fire-safe cigarettes under the Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 1990. Dr. Harris-testifsed as an expert witness on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada in 1990 in a constitutional challenge to the Canadian government's ban on tobacco oroduct advertisincr. He has advised other U.S. =ederai agencies, including the Congressional Sudget Office and the E.P.A. He has served On'committees of the Nationai Academy Df Sciences concerning_AIDS, diesel emissions, and the nrevention of low birthweight. Dr. Harris has written on the economics of the tobacco industry, as well as many other topics in health policy. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, the .;ournal of the American Medical Association, the Journal Df the American Statistical Association, the New York Iimes, the Boston Globe, and U.S. Gews &World Report. Dr. Harris's favorite extracurricular activitv is ice speedsicating. Durina Nov. 6-7, 1993, he competed _along ::ith his two children ) l.n the =astern Statas Short __scL: . ap in Saratoaa Springs, _IY. iBe did not make it zo -.he =inai aeat in the Masters Zivision.j

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