Harm Reduction

Here s some good news for those promoting the use of e-cigarettes as a form of tobacco harm reduction.

Many more individuals with diagnosable mental disorders are smokers as compared to the rest of the population.

Taking bupropion (Zyban), a drug used to help people stop smoking by reducing cravings and other withdrawal effects, did not help smokers quit in the period after a heart attack, a

It s a grim, unwelcome milestone for gender equality.

Our New York readers should be able to catch ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross discussing fracking on WCBS-TV (channel 2) tonight between 5 and 6, and possibly between 6 and 6:30, and maybe even between 11 and 11:30.

The U.S. is backsliding when it comes to tobacco control, the American Lung Association says.

"The EU s new tobacco policy statement, ostensibly designed to promote public health, will have the opposite effect: Far from reducing the toll of tobacco, millions will be condemned to ongoing addiction to smoking, half of whom will die as a dir

The European Union Health Commission is out with a new set of rules proposing more regulations on e-cigarettes and tightening the absurd ban on snus which ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross is doing his best to counter in the popular press.

The World Health Organization predicts that if current trends continue, the likely toll of tobacco will amount to one-billion lives cut short worldwide.

H.I.V. positive patients who smoke lose more years to smoking than to the virus itself, a new Danish study suggests.