Harm Reduction

This report provides a description of traditional and modern smokeless tobacco products.

A September 26, 2006 article by Lauren Foster notes that judges have ruled claims that "light" cigarettes are healthier to be false but that the idea of using smokeless tobacco as a safer alternativ

An August 8, 2006 Boston Herald article noted a piece by ACSH's Todd Seavey chasti

A July 13, 2006 column (reprinted

Beginning in the 1950s, people suffering from smoking-related diseases started suing cigarette companies.

New York, NY -- July 2006. Foods are not cigarettes and should not be treated like them in the courts, according to a new publication by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).

A May 7, 2006 article on the website of the Pakistan News Service quotes ACSH's Dr.

A new report from Norway, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, presents stark new data on the lethal effects of cigarettes.

Skepticism is hard. As a recent best-selling book noted, doubletalk is a pervasive part of an attention-driven, media-dominated economy.

Last night almost the entire ACSH staff trekked down to Times Square to see a preview of Thank You for Smoking, based on the Christopher Buckley novel (a very humorous one indeed) about Nick Naylor, the smokesman -- er, spokesman -- for t