Tobacco Harm Reduction Paper Nicotine

[roosterado]

Debunking the claim that abstinence is usually healthier for smokers than switching to a low-risk alternative, and other observations about anti-tobacco-harm-reduction arguments

 

[LoveVanilla]

Wow, just wow. That is a FANTASTIC article that directly crystallizes the struggles and opposition that vapers face. If you have not previously read this, I highly recommend. It is quite illuminating -- and useful...

 

[Danie06]

Impressive article.

"Whatever the explanation for it, the present analysis shows that anti-THR activism is deadly. Hiding THR from smokers, waiting for them to decide to quit entirely or waiting for a new anti-smoking magic bullet, causes the deaths of more smokers every month than a lifetime using low-risk nicotine products ever could."

Damn right too.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Please note that article is five years old.

 

[roosterado]

Please note that article is five years old.

And The Quit or Die Health Org's have been against tobacco Harm Reduction for 20+ years http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/anti-smoking-experts-paid-by-big-pharma/

 

[DrMA]

Phillips, Rodu, Nitzkin and a few others have published extensively on THR. Unfortunately, all of the evidence has been maliciously ignored by the desk murderers in their pursuit of the moralistic "quit or die" stance.

Here are some illuminating examples, some related to vaping:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779270
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161854
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460313003729
The Case in Favor of E-Cigarettes for Tobacco Harm Reduction

Of course, no THR discussion would be complete without reference to the seminal 1976 paper by Michael Russell who essentially started the THR movement: Low-tar medium-nicotine cigarettes: a new approach to safer smoking.

 

[LoveVanilla]

Please note that article is five years old.

Yes, however, it fully crystallizes the position of some of the anti-vape camp that wasn't comprehensible to some newer converts. The only motives I could previously attribute to the opposition was stupidity, or greed and profit. While these remain true, this article illuminates another.

And thanks for all that you do!


“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

 

[Nate760]

Yes, however, it fully crystallizes the position of some of the anti-vape camp that wasn't comprehensible to some newer converts. The only motives I could previously attribute to the opposition was stupidity, or greed and profit. While these remain true, this article illuminates another.

In 1986, with the passage of U.S. Code Title 15, Chapter 70, § 4402, the US Congress made a conscious decision to start lying to the American people about non-combustible tobacco products. An untold and unknowable number of smokers have died needlessly because of it. Instead of taking a nuanced approach to a complex issue, our government decided to promulgate the narrative that all tobacco products are exactly the same, all forms of tobacco use are equally hazardous to the user's health, and there is no such thing as a reduced-risk form of tobacco consumption.

Nearly three decades have passed since then, and no one in Washington has yet dared to challenge the veracity of those lies, which directly contribute, year after year, to the premature deaths of smokers who continue to be told they have nothing to gain by switching to non-combustible products. As is always the case with these things, the longer a series of lies goes unquestioned and unchallenged, the more ingrained it becomes in our sociopolitical orthodoxy, the more people believe it without thinking, and the more damage it does.

 

[DrMA]

In 1986, with the passage of U.S. Code Title 15, Chapter 70, § 4402, the US Congress made a conscious decision to start lying to the American people about non-combustible tobacco products. An untold and unknowable number of smokers have died needlessly because of it. Instead of taking a nuanced approach to a complex issue, our government decided to promulgate the narrative that all tobacco products are exactly the same, all forms of tobacco use are equally hazardous to the user's health, and there is no such thing as a reduced-risk form of tobacco consumption.

Nearly three decades have passed since then, and no one in Washington has yet dared to challenge the veracity of those lies, which directly contribute, year after year, to the premature deaths of smokers who continue to be told they have nothing to gain by switching to non-combustible products. As is always the case with these things, the longer a series of lies goes unquestioned and unchallenged, the more ingrained it becomes in our sociopolitical orthodoxy, the more people believe it without thinking, and the more damage it does.

re bold:
Evidence reviewed by Nitzkin (2014) suggests that propaganda, lies, and misinformation regarding tobacco harm reduction (THR) perpetrated by TCI and disseminated by so-called "public health" groups have caused nearly 10 million preventable deaths related to smoking in the past 20 years alone. Using conservative assumptions for the success of THR initiatives based on ecigs, Nitzkin (2014) estimates that up to 4.8 million American lives could be saved over the next 20 years.