Harm Reduction

Health officials in Ontario are realizing that the government’s anti-tobacco policies may actually be bolstering the cigarette black market si

After surveying 50 states and the District of Columbia to document their 2009 Medicaid tobacco-dependence treatment coverage, the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the CDC, f

Following New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to ban smoking from parks, public beaches and pedestrian plazas like the one found in Times Square, Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.

ACSH s Dr. Elizabeth Whelan comes to the defense of actress Katherine Heigl s decision to use e-cigarettes as a safer, more effective method of kicking her smoking habit for good.

Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn is being treated for salivary gland cancer — and he’s telling reporters he suspects it was caused by his career-long use of chewing tobacco.

Japan is attempting to curb its smoking rate — one of the highest in the industrialized world — by imposing a major tax hike on cigarettes.

Last Monday, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Knocked Up” actress Katherine Heigl prom

Six leading tobacco policy experts have proposed mandating that the nicotine in cigarettes be reduced to levels that aren t addictive.

After drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline petitioned the FDA Monday to bar dissolvable tobacco products from the market “until their sponsors can demonstrate to FDA that their marketing is appropriate for the protection of public health,” dissolvable tobacc

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the Nicorette nicotine lozenges, urged the FDA on Monday to treat dissolvabl