Michael Siegel

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Michael B. Siegel is an American tobacco control researcher and public health researcher. He is a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. [1]

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Education

Siegel completed his residency in preventive medicine at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and trained in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control for two years. [1] His former mentor is tobacco-control activist Stanton Glantz. [2]

Work

Siegel is known for his work in the area of tobacco control and the harmful effects of passive smoking. [1] However, in 2007, he published a paper dismissing claims that brief exposure to secondhand smoke increased the risk of heart attacks or presented any other significant cardiovascular risk to nonsmokers. [3] He has been called out for going astray by his former mentor Stanton Glantz who called him "a tragic figure - he has completely lost it," and "his view is that everybody in the tobacco control movement is corrupt and misguided except for him". [3] He also published a study in 2013 that found that in the United States, "states with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides." [4] He published a similar study the following year, which concluded that "state-level gun ownership...is significantly associated with firearm and total homicides but not with non-firearm homicides." [5] [6] In 2016, he and Emily Rothman published another study that found a "substantial" association between gun ownership rates and the rate at which women died from firearm homicide. [7] [8] In July 2016, he and Rothman published another study that found a strong positive association between gun ownership rates and gun-related suicide rates in the United States. The same study found a strong association between gun ownership rates and overall suicide rates, but only among men. [9] He has also published research about how the soda industry spends millions on health organizations, yet simultaneously lobbies against public health laws intended to reduce consumption of their products. [10]

Views on electronic cigarettes

Siegel has argued that electronic cigarettes could lead to conventional cigarettes becoming obsolete. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Michael B. Siegel, MD". Boston University. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 Tavernise, Sabrina (22 February 2014). "A Hot Debate Over E-Cigarettes as a Path to Tobacco, or From It". New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 Beam, Alex (13 November 2007). "Where there's smoke...there's Dr. Siegel". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Siegel, Michael; Ross, Craig S.; King, Charles (November 2013). "The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981–2010". American Journal of Public Health. 103 (11): 2098–2105. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.457.8466 . doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301409. PMC   3828709 . PMID   24028252.
  5. ↑ Siegel, M.; Ross, C. S.; King, C. (16 April 2014). "Examining the relationship between the prevalence of guns and homicide rates in the USA using a new and improved state-level gun ownership proxy". Injury Prevention. 20 (6): 424–426. doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2014-041187. PMID   24740937. S2CID   206980488.
  6. ↑ DeFilippis, Evan (25 January 2015). "The Myth of the Good Guy With a Gun". Slate. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Siegel, Michael B.; Rothman, Emily F. (20 January 2016). "Firearm Ownership and the Murder of Women in the United States: Evidence That the State-Level Firearm Ownership Rate Is Associated with the Nonstranger Femicide Rate". Violence and Gender. 3: 20–26. doi:10.1089/vio.2015.0047.
  8. ↑ "Study finds link between state gun ownership rates and murders of women". Phys.org. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  9. ↑ Siegel, M; Rothman, EF (July 2016). "Firearm Ownership and Suicide Rates Among US Men and Women, 1981-2013". American Journal of Public Health. 106 (7): 1316–22. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303182. PMC   4984734 . PMID   27196643.
  10. ↑ Aaron, DG; Siegel, MB (3 October 2016). "Sponsorship of National Health Organizations by Two Major Soda Companies". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 52 (1): 20–30. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2016.08.010. PMID   27745783.
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