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Tobacco, nicotine and harm reduction
Drug and Alcohol Review, 2011AbstractIssues. Tobacco smoking, sustained by nicotine dependence, is a chronic relapsing disorder, which in many cases results in lifelong cigarette use and consequent death of one out of two lifelong smokers from a disease caused by their smoking. Most toxicity due to cigarette smoking is related to the burning process. Approach.
Le Houezec, Jacques +2 more
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Harm reduction policies for tobacco users
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2010Tobacco harm reduction is a controversial policy due to the experience with filtered and 'light' cigarettes and concerns that the tobacco industry will use reduced harm products to undermine tobacco control strategies. The most promising harm reduction products are high dose pharmaceutical nicotine preparations and low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco ...
Gartner, C, Hall, W
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Tobacco Smoking, Harm Reduction, and Biomarkers
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2002The only known way to reduce cancer risk in smokers is complete cessation, but many smokers are unable or unwilling to quit. Consequently, tobacco companies are now marketing products that purport to reduce carcinogen exposure, with the implication that such products provide a safer way to smoke.
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Tobacco harm reduction: Promise and perils
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2002With the tobacco industry developing and test marketing a wide array of modified cigarettes and novel nicotine-delivery products, the era of tobacco harm reduction is upon us. Like today's new technologies, two previous generations of cigarette innovation-filtered cigarettes in the 1950s and low tar and nicotine cigarettes in the late 1960s and early ...
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Tobacco harm reduction: opportunity and opposition
Drugs and Alcohol Today, 2013PurposeThis paper aims to provide a brief summary of the effectiveness and efficacy of tobacco harm reduction (THR). THR is the substitution for cigarettes of low‐risk alternatives, including Swedish or American‐style smokeless tobacco, pharmaceutical nicotine products, and electronic cigarettes.
Carl V. Phillips, Brad Rodu
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Smokers’ perceptions of smokeless tobacco and harm reduction
Journal of Public Health Policy, 2012Existing survey data indicate that most smokers are not receptive to harm reduction incentives of switching to smokeless tobacco (SLT). Little is known about the underlying reasons for these views. To explore smokers' perceptions of SLT, we conducted a focus group (eight in total) study of daily smokers between 2009 and 2010 at the University of ...
Mojgan, Sami +6 more
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Harm reduction: lessons learned from tobacco control
Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2006The proposal that morbidity, mortality and social costs, associated with alcohol use may be reduced by developing alternatives to alcohol (either as lower-strength versions of existing alcoholic drinks, or by developing pharmacological alternatives to alcohol) is a rational argument applied to an irrational (i.e. addictive) behaviour.
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The prospects for tobacco harm reduction
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2005Tobacco harm reduction (THR) policies aim to reduce the prevalence of tobacco-related harm by encouraging smokers who are unable or unwilling to quit to adopt less harmful ways of obtaining nicotine, such as pharmaceutical nicotine and oral tobacco snuff.
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Tobacco smoking, harm reduction, and nicotine product regulation
The Lancet, 2008Cigarette smoking is highly addictive, widely prevalent, and very hazardous. Smoking killed 100 million people in the 20th century, and is predicted to kill 1 billion in the 21st century. Worldwide, there are about 1·1 billion smokers, and there are expected to be 1·6 billion by 2025.
John, Britton, Richard, Edwards
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Understanding the Basic Economics of Tobacco Harm Reduction
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016The branch of economics that studies preferences and choices as they relate to costs and benefits is the natural starting point for understanding these phenomena as they relate to tobacco/nicotine use. Many implications of substituting low-risk alternatives (e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco) for smoking, usually referred to as ‘tobacco harm reduction ...
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