Harm Reduction

In keeping with the unimpressive success rate of conventional smoking cessation aids, cytosine, an anti-smoking drug first marketed in 1964, has only an 8.4 percent success rate among smokers,

A lengthy article in this week s New England Journal of Medicine catalogues a variety of approaches to helping smokers quit within the health

In a letter to the FDA on modified risk tobacco products (MRTP), a coalition of public health non-profits, including the American Cancer Society, The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the American Heart Association, cites the tobacco industry s

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Just last week we reported that the smoking rate in New York City dropped to an all-time low of 14 percent down from 22 percent in 2002.

Upon initially reading the results of new research that found that nearly 30 percent of U.S.

Unfortunately, not all the news is good news: A recently proposed measure in the Russian Federation, much to our (and all others devoted to reducing the toll of smoking) chagrin, aims to ban the manufacture, sale, and importation of smokeless toba

As the nation works to curb smoking, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presented some statistics on lung cancer rates that serve as inspiration

More good news on the anti-smoking front strikes closer to home, as the latest statistics reveal that adult smoking rates in New York fell to a record low of just 14 percen

Finally a bit of sound science and common sense seems to be percolating from an official governmental agency unfortunately, not in our country.