Harm Reduction

A May 7, 2006 article on the website of the Pakistan News Service quotes ACSH's Dr.

A new report from Norway, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, presents stark new data on the lethal effects of cigarettes.

Skepticism is hard. As a recent best-selling book noted, doubletalk is a pervasive part of an attention-driven, media-dominated economy.

Last night almost the entire ACSH staff trekked down to Times Square to see a preview of Thank You for Smoking, based on the Christopher Buckley novel (a very humorous one indeed) about Nick Naylor, the smokesman -- er, spokesman -- for t

Nick Naylor, master lobbyist for Big Tobacco in the just-released film Thank You For Smoking, is adept at making lemonade out of lemons.

Tony Soprano (of the HBO mega-series The Sopranos) is a mobster whose stock in trade is intimidation and murder.

One odd thing about the film Thank You for Smoking is the ironic omission of visible cigarette smoking.

When anti-smoking Sen.

A January 4, 2006 column by Audrey Silk, head of NYC CLASH (Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment), not someone with whom ACSH usually sees eye to ey

A Jan 3, 2006 article by Nick Schirripa about the difficulty of quitting cigarettes (for more, see ACSH's Kicking Butts in the Twenty-First Century) notes a statistic on quit rates gleaned from ACSH: