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