Kim "Skip" Murray
Consumer Advocate
Skip's Corner

In her “day job”, Kim “Skip” Murray is a Direct Support Professional at a group home that provides services to people living with disabilities. She is also a volunteer Public Health Advocate who uses her lived experience as a consumer of nicotine products and former vape shop owner and e-liquid manufacturer to provide a meaningful voice in the Tobacco Harm Reduction space. She is a co-founder and content creator of the Safer Nicotine Wiki. Her passion project is Skip's Corner, “A safe place to talk about hard things,” where she writes about living with a disability and composes newsletters about Tobacco Harm Reduction. She completed the Rutgers Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training course in 2023 and continues to help people stop smoking on a volunteer basis, combining her training with her experience owning a vape shop to provide a multifaceted approach to smoking cessation.

Sessions with Kim "Skip" Murray

14:25 - 15:25
Health care providers, adults who smoke tobacco, and the public at large all have misperceptions about nicotine and the relative risk of non-combustible nicotine products. Misperceptions can lead to health care providers dispensing inaccurate information, motivating policy makers to pass laws that don’t improve public health, and preventing adults who smoke from switching to less harmful smoke-free products. Hear nicotine science, policy, and advocacy experts discuss long-standing misperceptions about nicotine. What misperceptions does the public believe, and where did those misperceptions come from? How can we meaningfully move the public’s understanding of nicotine and smoke-free products without inadvertently promoting use to unintended audiences (i.e., nonusers and youth)? What more can the FDA do to inform healthcare providers, people who smoke, and the public about the continuum of risk of various nicotine products? What can academic researchers do? What about manufacturers?

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