Sub-Catagories: Tobacco Harm Reduction
To make these documents easier to navigate and locate, this collection has been divided into various sub-categories which each define a certain area of research or interest.
In total there are over 80 papers in this collection, and these have been divided into ten sections. Each of the sections contains papers advocating for harm reduction, as well as papers that provide the evidence base for harm reduction. For many of the sections, there are also articles for “further reading”. To view the documents in each section, as well as a description of the section itself, please click on the links below.
Overviews of harm reduction
The rationale behind tobacco harm reduction approaches is that, while dependence on nicotine (the addictive substance in tobacco) underpins most tobacco use, it is not what causes most of the harm.… Read more
Nicotine policy
This section examines the policies that are needed in order to improve the regulation of all nicotine products. These papers discuss how cleaner nicotine products can replace cigarettes as the… Read more
Regulation of nicotine replacement therapies
Nicotine replacement products (NRT) are products that are manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry to be used as aids to smoking cessation and are ‘clean’ nicotine delivery devices. They have… Read more
The health risks of smokeless tobacco and its role in a harm reduction strategy
Smokeless tobacco products are less harmful than cigarette smoking because they are non-combustible. Nevertheless, there is a wide variety of different smokeless tobacco products on the market… Read more
Regulation of cigarettes
There will never be a truly “safe” cigarette because the process of combustion, by its very nature, releases a host of toxic smoke components. However, it may be possible to make changes to… Read more
The failure of light cigarettes
Thus far, the most significant attempt to reduce the harmfulness of cigarettes was the “tar reduction” strategy. It is now widely agreed that this strategy has achieved little (if any) public health… Read more
Cigarette reduction
Cigarette reduction has been widely proscribed as a harm reduction measure as, when reducing the number of cigarettes smoked each day, many smokers tended to smoke each individual cigarette more… Read more
PREPs and other tobacco use
In addition to conventional cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco (covered in Section 4), there are other forms of tobacco available. For example, traditional alternatives to cigarettes are pipes and… Read more
The role of the tobacco industry and funding
This section includes articles which examine the tobacco industry’s knowledge of smoking and toxicity as well as the potential role that the industry can play in tobacco harm reduction in the… Read more
Communication and perceptions of relative risks
The attitudes of smokers towards harm reduction products are critically important to their success. This section includes papers which outline and investigate how much smokers understand about the… Read more
