Harm Reduction

Maybe public health researchers should have to apply for a permit before spouting bad ideas?

It s the American Cancer Society-sponsored 37th annual Great American Smokeout today an appropriate day to take a moment to spare a thought for the 44 million Americans in the grip of a deadly addiction, ACSH s Dr.

We re normally fans of New York Times science writer Jane Brody but her latest column on quitting smoking is incorrect and irresponsible.

As public health delegates from around the world begin meeting in Seoul, South Korea, for a meeting to discuss

The nation s smoking cessation programs just aren t working but health officials are stubbornly refusing to admit it.

Sixty years after health reports started tallying the deadly toll of cigarettes, millions of people are still addicted to tobacco.

University of California at Los Angeles chancellor Gene Block yesterday

We've seen it before reports of reports of near-immediate reductions in heart attacks after smoking bans were enacted indoors.

The World Health Organization s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is scheduled to take up the issue of e-cigarettes at its meeting next month in Seoul and it appears as though the deck is stacked against advocates of tobacco harm reductio