Harm Reduction

If two Senators have their way, baseball fans will no longer have to watch their favorite ball players spit in the dugout or field — at least not tobacco, that is. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen.

Today, the U.S.

ACSH scientific advisor and Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Dr. Michael Siegel points to a troubling misrepresentation by advocates of smoking bans.

Today’s New York Times contains a Page One story on a strange and disquieting trend: U.S.

Despite receiving even an A-list celebrity testimonial on their efficacy, e-cigarettes have gotten a lot of flack from public health opponents who argue that the clean nicotine delivery device is harmful and contains “toxic” chemicals.

First Lady Michelle Obama announced that President Obama has been cigarette-free for a year now.

There is no such thing as a safe form of tobacco, says Joseph Lee, a social research specialist for the Department of Family Medicine at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in an

The New York City Council approved a bill Wednesday expanding the City’s public smoking ban to beaches an

The state of Tennessee, one of the largest growers of dark tobacco used in smokeless products such as Swedish snus, is seeing a

ACSH has long been a leader in the fight against cigarettes, and we take pride in the work we have done to inform the public about the vast (and little-known) spectrum of real risks posed by cigarettes.