Harm Reduction

The science and policy of minimising risks associated with substance use, high-risk behaviours, and public health challenges — grounded in evidence rather than stigma.

A recent HealthDay News headlined “Nicotine Can Fuel Breast Cancer, Study Suggests” may needlessly scare readers into wrongfully assuming breast can
While electronic cigarettes are nothing new to Dispatch readers, they just today made the front page of The Wall Street Journal.
ACSH staffers were excited with the overwhelming response we received over the weekend via e-mail and Twitter to our question asking readers whether they or someone they know used electronic ciga
ACSH staffers re-learned a valuable lesson in news reporting yesterday: the media isn t always right.
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced Tuesday that in order to protect our teens from unsafe products, Smoking Everywhere, Inc s electro
The Associated Press predicts that China s commitment to ban smoking in all public indoor facilities by January 2011 will go up in a puff of smo
Though currently stalled in litigation against the FDA, electronic cigarettes may become the newest craze among smokers who wish to break the habit for good, the
The front page of today’s New York Times business section features a topic
Sadly for the Florida plaintiffs from the decertified Engle v.
Women in China may disappear in a puff of smoke, literally. Out of the current 350 million smokers in China, 4 percent are female, but that figure is growing rapidly.