Harm Reduction

Indiana’s Republican governor (and potential presidential candidate) Mitch Daniels is expected to sign an omnibus bill that includes tobacco harm reduction language specifically stipulating that

A potential ban on menthol cigarettes got some momentum, based upon three

Is there a link between smoking and blindness? If you weren’t aware that there is, it’s probably for lack of a national awareness campaign.

ACSH gives two cheers to the New Zealand Ministry of Health for acknowledging that electronic cigarettes are “far safer” than traditional cigarettes.

For the second time in as many days, we’d like to give a tip of the hat to ACSH advisor and Boston University School of Public Health Professor Dr. Michael Siegel for his essays on two different smoking-related policies.

Two perspective pieces addressing the menthol cigarette problem appear in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.

The results of a small study on Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug Chantix (varenicline) underscore the difficulties smokers face when attempting to ki

The Linn County, Iowa Board of Supervisors will vote next month on whether to ban the sale of dissolvable tobacco products.

Give it another nine years or so and every state will have implemented an indoor smoking ban.

Two new studies should give you two more reasons to quit smoking or even better, never to start in the first place.