Charlotta Pisinger
{{short description|Danish medical doctor, professor}}
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| birth_date = 19 December 1960
| birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia
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| alma_mater = University of Copenhagen
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| known_for = Danish professor in tobacco prevention
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Charlotta Holm Pisinger (born 19 December 1960) is a Danish medical doctor, an expert on tobacco-related health issues, and the first Danish professor in tobacco prevention, at the University of Copenhagen.
Early life
Charlotta Pisinger was born on 19 December 1960, in Prague, Czechoslovakia.{{cite news |title=Charlotta Pisinger |url=https://www.altinget.dk/person/charlotta-pisinger |accessdate=17 September 2019 |work=Altinget |date=11 December 2018}} She earned a master's degree in 1988, a PhD in 2004, and an MPH in 2007, all from the University of Copenhagen.
Career
Pisinger is professor in tobacco prevention, at the University of Copenhagen, and an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark.{{cite web |last1=Pickering |first1=Birgitte |title=Charlotta Holm Pisinger |url=https://www.frederiksberghospital.dk/ccrp/about/staff/Pages/Charlotta-Holm-Pisinger.aspx |website=Frederiksberg Hospital |accessdate=17 September 2019}}
Pisinger is chairman of the European Respiratory Society tobacco control committee, and a former president of the Danish Society for Tobacco Research. She sits on the directory board for Danish Epidemiological Society and is a member of the Danish Heart Foundation research evaluation committee.
Pisinger is a prominent sceptic of e-cigarettes, and in September 2019, was quoted as the subject of an article in The Observer:{{cite news |last1=Doward |first1=Jamie |last2=Fraser |first2=Tali |title=UK attacked for defence of flavoured e-cigarettes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/14/vaping-flavours-health-concern-children |accessdate=17 September 2019 |work=The Observer |date=14 September 2019}}
In Europe we have banned flavours from cigarettes because we know it attracts young people to smoking ... Cigarettes should taste like cigarettes not like candy. E-cigarettes taste like candy and, frequently, we see in small shops where they are sold, e-cigarettes on one side and candy on the other. Of course it attracts children.
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