Study: Low-risk Nicotine Is Better than Quitting Smoking

[Anthony]

“It has long been known that while no nicotine product is completely harmless, harm reduction products pose only about 1% the risk from smoking,” says Carl V. Phillips, an epidemiologist and health policy researcher, “and this difference is so great that for the average smoker, using a smokeless product for the rest of his life poses about the same risk as 30 days of continuing to smoke.”

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3138264.htm

[justintempler]

..."there is no scientific basis for denying the benefits of tobacco harm reduction" says Phillips, "and it is time that we offer smokers honest public health interventions rather than the moralizing and deadly 'abstinence-only' approach." The abstinence-only approach leaves many ex-smokers miserable and leaves millions of others no choice but to keep smoking....

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[Ulsterman]

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