Harm Reduction

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

Following New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to ban smoking from parks, public beaches and pedestrian plazas like the one found in Times Square, Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.

ACSH s Dr. Elizabeth Whelan comes to the defense of actress Katherine Heigl s decision to use e-cigarettes as a safer, more effective method of kicking her smoking habit for good.

Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn is being treated for salivary gland cancer — and he’s telling reporters he suspects it was caused by his career-long use of chewing tobacco.

Japan is attempting to curb its smoking rate — one of the highest in the industrialized world — by imposing a major tax hike on cigarettes.

Last Monday, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Knocked Up” actress Katherine Heigl prom