Harm Reduction

Nick Naylor, master lobbyist for Big Tobacco in the just-released film Thank You For Smoking, is adept at making lemonade out of lemons.

Tony Soprano (of the HBO mega-series The Sopranos) is a mobster whose stock in trade is intimidation and murder.

One odd thing about the film Thank You for Smoking is the ironic omission of visible cigarette smoking.

When anti-smoking Sen.

A January 4, 2006 column by Audrey Silk, head of NYC CLASH (Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment), not someone with whom ACSH usually sees eye to ey

A Jan 3, 2006 article by Nick Schirripa about the difficulty of quitting cigarettes (for more, see ACSH's Kicking Butts in the Twenty-First Century) notes a statistic on quit rates gleaned from ACSH:

A December 28, 2005 article by Erin Kelly mentions a smoking-cessation statistic gleaned from ACSH:

A November 20, 2005 article by Chresten Anderson quotes an op-ed by Brad Rodu and ACSH's Jeff Stier, which made the

Thursday, November 17, 2005 is the Great American Smokeout -- but many not-so-great American doctors are neglecting to tell their patients to quit smoking.

Stephen S.