Browsing: Tobacco

The worldwide tobacco control landscape is increasingly characterized by a dichotomy — on one side, evidence-based harm reduction, and on the other, prohibitionist policymaking. Nowhere is…

Alcohol and tobacco cause far more harms to people who consume them, and to society overall, than marijuana does, according to a new government-funded study. A…

Public health has learned over the past few decades to embrace harm reduction when abstinence-only approaches miss their mark. From distributing condoms to prevent transmission during…

HB 513, one of the bills that may be a slight break for vape sellers, has passed. Described as a “tax deduction for cigarette wholesalers when…

Science is often described as a self-correcting enterprise, a system in which weak evidence is challenged, errors are exposed, and truth gradually rises to the surface.…

For decades, cannabis has been treated as a public menace while alcohol and tobacco were folded into daily life, policy frameworks and corporate profit models. A…

Australia’s growing illicit tobacco crisis is no longer a fringe issue—it is a stark illustration of what happens when tobacco control relies on prohibition rather than…

Smoking remains one of the most stubborn public health challenges of the modern era. It’s impact extends beyond lung/respiratory and oral disease. Cervical cancer for instance,…

The Asia-Pacific region sits at the centre of the global smoking epidemic. Home to the majority of the world’s smokers, it also bears a disproportionate share…