Reducing the Harm from Tobacco

Posted by Hans Bader

Swedish-style snus, a smokeless tobacco product, are much less hazardous to your health than cigarettes. Yet in most of Europe, they are banned, supposedly on health grounds, even while cigarettes (which generate large amounts of tax revenue for the government) are legal.

Imperial Tobacco is now planning to market this reduced-harm product in Canada, as way of offering smokers a less harmful way of satisfying their nicotine habit.

In the United States, such reduced-harm tobacco products will face additional hurdles if the Congress, as expected, passes a bill subjecting the tobacco industry to FDA regulation. That has drawn criticism on health grounds. The FDA tobacco regulation bill has also drawn other objections, such as claims it would violate international trade treaties.

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09/12/2007 @ 1:08 pm | Economic Liberty, Healthcare Reform, Precaution & Risk, Trade | Comments

One Response to “Reducing the Harm from Tobacco”

  1. Posted by: Maggie - 09/21/2007

    The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars on advertising and promotion to increase their customer base, and if that weren’t enough they are now marketing new tobacco products such as reduced risk’ cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to gain new customers. Through these products, the tobacco industry is trying to create the perception of safer tobacco use.

    If you are looking for more information about these tobacco products or on tobacco control methods you can find it at the website Global Tobacco Control: Learning from the Experts: http://www.globaltobaccocontrol.org.

    It is a new interactive resource for free online training, dedicated to enhancing knowledge about global tobacco control. It is a premier source for research and policy guidance on how to stem the global epidemic of tobacco-related deaths.

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