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Biography: Jeffrey E. Harris
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- Harris, J.E.
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- SPEARS,ALEXANDER/EXEC CONF ROOM STO
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- Harris, J.E.
- Date Loaded
- 05 Jun 1998
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- 89734677/89735317/Tobacco Institute 930000
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- Ma General Hospital
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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 Iiortality"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
Resources 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
