Jeff Stier
Senior Fellow
Consumer Choice Center and Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Jeff Stier
Senior Fellow
Consumer Choice Center and Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Jeff Stier is a senior fellow at the Consumer Choice Center. He is also a senior fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and a policy advisor to the Heartland Institute.
He is widely quoted in the media and has written health policy op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The New York Post, The Washington Examiner, Foxnews.com and National Review Online. The New York Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, NPR and other major outlets have interviewed and quoted Stier on a wide range of topics.
Stier has testified at state and local legislatures throughout the U.S., at FDA scientific hearings and at the Office of Management and Budget. He has also been a voice for freedom at hearings at the United Nations and in Israel’s Knesset. During two decades of advancing public health and defending liberty, Stier has been a speaker at CPAC, policy retreats for elected officials and medical and legal conferences. Mr. Stier crafted health and environmental policy in the Office of the Mayor during the Giuliani administration in New York City.
Mr. Stier is Chairman of the board of the non-profit Jewish International Connections, NY. While earning his law degree at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Mr. Stier served two terms as Editor-In-Chief of the Cardozo Law Forum. Jeff and his canine, BB, volunteer as a Certified Crisis Response Strike Team with NATIONAL Crisis Response Canines, supporting survivors and first-responders.
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Contributions
Implementation of Reagan-Udall’s Recommended Reforms for the Center for Tobacco Products Reforms, A Six Month Status Report
Jeff Stier
About six months ago, the Reagan-Udall Foundation sent the Food and Drug Administration its Operational Evaluation of FDA’s Tobacco Program. this is a report that the FDA itself requested in July of 2022. How is the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) implementing the recommendations of the report to date?
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Explainer Episode 52 – What Came Next: FDA’s Response to the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s December Reports on FDA’s Tobacco and Human Foods Program
In late February 2023, the FDA released its responses to the December 2022 Regan-Udall Foundation reports on the FDA’s Human Foods and Tobacco programs.
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Explainer Episode 46 – The Reagan-Udall Foundation’s December Reports on FDA’s Tobacco and Human Foods Programs: What the Reports Mean and What Comes Next
In this podcast, Jeff Stier breaks down some of what the reports say, and what the next steps for both the FDA and Congress may be.
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Explainer Episode 31 – The Regulation of E-Cigarettes and Vapes
Health policy expert Jeff Stier joins the podcast to discuss all things concerning the regulation of e-cigarettes and vapes.
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How Should Flavored Vapes Be Regulated?
Should flavored nicotine vapes be banned because they might contribute to youth addiction, or should flavors be allowed because they encourage adult smokers to switch to vaping?
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The Real World Costs of Heavy-Handed Chemical Regulation
Jeff Stier
The application of EU-style chemical regulation in emerging economies would reduce the number of jobs available and increase the cost of living in already struggling communities. A risk-based approach like that of the United States is the best way for Brazil, India, and other countries to raise standards of living while protecting their citizens.
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Explainer Episode 12 – A Recipe for A Better World: Nine Parts Innovation, One Part Regulation
In this episode, Jeff Stier draws on the experience of Impossible Burger to argue for light touch regulation on harm-reducing technologies.
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A Recipe for A Better World; Nine Parts Innovation, One Part Regulation
Jeff Stier
Sometimes well-intentioned, restrictive government interventions are backward-looking problem-solving tools. Too often, they fail to deliver on the promises made to justify their costs, both in terms of unintended consequences and their cost to individual freedoms.
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