The Heartland Institute

Nearly 50 million American adults—more than a fifth of the nation’s adult population—smoke cigarettes. After vigorous efforts aimed at reducing that figure, the percentage of Americans who smoke has fallen by almost half in the past four decades. In recent years, however, the number of people quitting cigarettes has begun to ...

In 2006, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) became the first organization in the United States to formally endorse tobacco harm reduction (THR). ACSH based its position on a comprehensive review of the existing scientific and medical literature, which showed that smokeless tobacco use: (a) is at least 98 percent ...

Over the past five years there has been exponential expansion of interest in tobacco harm reduction (THR), with a concomitant increase in the number of published studies. The purpose of this manuscript is to review and analyze influential contributions to the scientific and medical literature relating to THR, and to discuss ...

The February issue of the British Medical Journal ( http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22811 ) confirms what research has shown for years: smokeless tobacco is less harmful than traditional smoking. Unfortunately, the anti-smoking lobby has prevented the issue of " harm-reduction" from being discussed. Harm-reduction in this instance ...

Smoking is the biggest avoidable cause of death and disability, and of social inequalities in health, in the United Kingdom. Smoking currently kills over 100 000 UK citizens each year, predominantly from lung cancer, heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Half of all lifelong smokers die from smoking, typically ...

The June 16 issue of the internationally acclaimed medical journal The Lancet reports a study related to the use of Swedish snus, a kind of smokeless tobacco that's being promoted as a measure for harm reduction in smokers. The study suggests current smokers who switched to Swedish snus--prepared from air-dried tobacco, which ...

Premature deaths attributable to tobacco smoking are expected to rise from 5·4 million in 2005 to 6·4 million in 2015, and to 8·3 million in 2030. The Lancet’s call for a global goal of an annual 2% reduction in chronic disease mortality will require a concerted worldwide effort to reduce smoking prevalence, the leading ...

Swedish snus is a smokeless tobacco product that has been suggested as a tobacco harm reduction product. Our aim was to assess the potential population health effects of snus. We assessed the potential population health effects of snus in Australia with multistate life tables to estimate the difference in health-adjusted life ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 45 million Americans continue to smoke, even after one of the most intense public health campaigns in history, now over 40 years old. Each year some 438,000 smokers die from smokingrelated diseases, including lung and other cancers, cardiovascular disorders and ...

Not many people would associates tobacco with nutrition, but it is from this pairing that Tabacur was created about a year ago. Bill Smart, who also owns a firm that manufactures and markets nutritional supplements, founded the Denver company after doing research on the health of tobacco users. "I discovered that this market ...

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“Tobacco Harm Reduction” seems to be on the lips of everyone who is associated with tobacco, public health, industry, growers, biotech companies and consumers. Some think it’s a good idea that holds promise for reducing disease and death caused by the use of tobacco. Others think it poses great risks. And still others retain ...

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In recognition of World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a lengthy document titled "Tobacco: Deadly in Any Form or Disguise." The publication misleads at least as much as it informs, and distorting the health risks of various modes of tobacco usage may cause more harm than it ...

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At the National Conference on Tobacco or Health, held in Chicago in May and attended by more than 5,000 tobacco control advocates and health education officials, an important topic--tobacco harm reduction--was pointedly ignored. The conference was sponsored by government agencies and not-for-profit advocacy groups, including the ...

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