Harm Reduction

"The EU s new tobacco policy statement, ostensibly designed to promote public health, will have the opposite effect: Far from reducing the toll of tobacco, millions will be condemned to ongoing addiction to smoking, half of whom will die as a dir

The European Union Health Commission is out with a new set of rules proposing more regulations on e-cigarettes and tightening the absurd ban on snus which ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross is doing his best to counter in the popular press.

The World Health Organization predicts that if current trends continue, the likely toll of tobacco will amount to one-billion lives cut short worldwide.

H.I.V. positive patients who smoke lose more years to smoking than to the virus itself, a new Danish study suggests.

Yesterday, ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross presented ACSH s position on access to reduced-risk tobacco and nicotine products at the FDA s public meeting on nicotine replacement therapies and smoking-cessation products.

A new analysis of the Nurse s Health Study has quantified just how much smoking contributes to sudden cardiac death and ho

Although the legal age for purchasing tobacco products is 18, everyday more than 3,800 pre-teens and adolescents ages 12 to 17 smoke their first cigarette, among whom 1,000 go on to become addicted smokers.

According to a new report from several public health organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, and the American Cancer Society, in 20

Get ready to hear more about electronic cigarettes except about how they can possibly help people quit smoking.

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