Harm Reduction

The nation s smoking cessation programs just aren t working but health officials are stubbornly refusing to admit it.

Sixty years after health reports started tallying the deadly toll of cigarettes, millions of people are still addicted to tobacco.

University of California at Los Angeles chancellor Gene Block yesterday

We've seen it before reports of reports of near-immediate reductions in heart attacks after smoking bans were enacted indoors.

The World Health Organization s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is scheduled to take up the issue of e-cigarettes at its meeting next month in Seoul and it appears as though the deck is stacked against advocates of tobacco harm reductio

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There s also more evidence out this week about the dangers of cigarettes.

A new laboratory analysis of secondhand smoke from electronic cigarettes (usually called vapor) is cutting the legs out from under one of the main