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DISPARITIES IN GLOBAL TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION

open access: greenAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2005
In “Origins of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,” Roemer et al. present a compelling argument for a unified global approach to tobacco control.1 However, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will not benefit nonsignatory countries, which tend to have few or no existing tobacco control measures in place. Indonesia is the only Asian
Jonathan Nadel   +2 more
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Knowledge about E-Cigarettes and Tobacco Harm Reduction among Public Health Residents in Europe. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2019
Introduction: Although electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and other tobacco-related products are becoming widely popular as alternatives to tobacco, little has been published on the knowledge of healthcare workers about their use. Thus, the aim of this
Ferrara P   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Tobacco Smoking, Harm Reduction, and Biomarkers [PDF]

open access: bronzeJNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2002
The 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.
Peter G. Shields
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Should the health community promote smokeless tobacco (snus) as a harm reduction measure?

open access: goldPLoS Medicine, 2007
Background to the debateThe tobacco control community is divided on whether or not to inform the public that using oral, smokeless tobacco (Swedish snus) is less hazardous to health than smoking tobacco.
Coral E Gartner   +3 more
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Tobacco Substitutes: Harm Reduction or Smokescreen?

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2007
The editors discuss whether publishing papers on smokeless tobacco serves a legitimate public health interest.
Barbour, Virginia   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Tobacco harm reduction: thinking the unthinkable. [PDF]

open access: yesBr J Gen Pract, 2012
We all know smokers who can't or simply won't stop smoking. They cough, they wheeze, and they completely fail to respond to our NICE-approved brief interventions, indifferent cajoling, or spittle-flecked threats of impending doom. It has been over 60 years since Doll and Hill published the landmark study on the harmful effects of smoking yet since then
Lawson E.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Harm reduction and the medicalisation of tobacco use [PDF]

open access: hybridSociology of Health & Illness, 2012
AbstractIn tobacco control the focus has, for some time, been on abstinence from all types of tobacco use as the only solution to the problem of smoking, and harm reduction approaches are controversial. The most recent English tobacco strategy has incorporated harm reduction approaches in the form of new ‘routes’ to quitting smoking that encourage ...
Catriona Rooke
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