Harm Reduction

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.

When can a supplement do more harm than good? When it's taken by smokers, in some cases. At least, that's what the latest data suggest about beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is a compound found in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.

Maybe the obituary writer at the New York Times should be the one in jail instead of Judith Miller.