Harm Reduction

Halloween may already be over, but the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) hasn’t given up on scaring smokers quite yet.

Most of us may already know that smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S., killing an average of 440,000 people annually.

Even though smoking rates have remained stagnant since 2007 in U.S.

How mainstream are e-cigarettes these days?

This week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication by the CDC, found that the proportion of

Electronic cigarettes are a “rapidly growing Internet phenomenon” that may pose unknown risks, two doctors and a researcher from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital write in an opi

Electronic cigarette manufacturer Smoking Everywhere has agreed to numerous advertising restrictions in a settlement with the state of California, state Attorney General Jerry Brown

Someone once said that there’s a little good and evil in us all.

Health officials in Ontario are realizing that the government’s anti-tobacco policies may actually be bolstering the cigarette black market si

After surveying 50 states and the District of Columbia to document their 2009 Medicaid tobacco-dependence treatment coverage, the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the CDC, f