Harm Reduction

When we think about the health consequences of smoking, lung cancer is typically the first that comes to mind.

As recently as December 2011, it seemed that the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, might be coming to its senses with regard to its senseless ban

"Quit or die. That's the message cigarette smokers get from the public health community," writes ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.

The FDA has just issued new guidelines dealing with chemicals in tobacco and how tobacco companies will be able to market potentially less risky products.

A major research trial in the UK has just underscored the inadequacy of standard nicotine replacement therapy as a means of helping smokers quit.

[E]xclusive use of DTPs [dissolvable tobacco products] would greatly reduce risk for smoking caused disease compared with regular use of cigarettes.

In its tenth anniversary edition, the latest Tobacco Atlas report by the World Lung Foundation (WLF) had some

Further evidence that, even if you can t quit smoking, you should try your damnedest not to smoke around your kids: A new study has found that children exposed to second-hand

Over half a million middle school students and three million high school students smoke, announced U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin while presenting the office s first report on youth smoking since 1994.

Last summer, the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) released a report that was supposed to help guide the FDA in deciding whether to ban menthol cigarette