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 There is perhaps no area that better exemplifies Tobacco Control's tactics -- as well as their disdain for honest science and their fundamental lack of concern for human welfare -- as their responses to efforts to reduce the risk from tobacco/nicotine use.  Their ongoing opposition to risk reduction (aka harm reduction; tobacco harm reduction (THR)) makes clear that while they might be part of "public health" (the political movement that has taken that name) they are not particularly concerned with public health.
-The concept of harm reduction, which is generally accepted as wise practice in public health, refers to developing and encouraging methods that let people continue a chosen behavior (or a minor variation on it), but with much lower risk than it might otherwise have.  The term developed in the context of drug use, where the clearest example is encouraging the use of clean needles among injection drug users, and providing needle exchanges to make this possible.  Clean needles reduce to almost zero the risk of transmitting blood-borne disease, and thereby dramatically reduce the health risk from injecting drugs without requiring users to end the behavior.  But harm reduction also describes seat belts and other safety features in cars, which reduce the risks of major injury or death from a risky behavior (motorized transport being one of the most risk voluntary activities most of us undertake) by more than half, without requiring that we give up or even reduce our driving.
+The concept of harm reduction, which is generally accepted as wise practice in public health, refers to developing and encouraging methods that let people continue a chosen behavior (or a minor variation on it), but with much lower risk than it might otherwise have.  The term developed in the context of drug use, where the clearest example is encouraging the use of clean needles among injection drug users, and providing needle exchanges to make this possible.  Clean needles reduce to almost zero the risk of transmitting blood-borne disease, and thereby dramatically reduce the health risk from injecting drugs without requiring users to end the behavior.  But harm reduction also describes seat belts and other safety features in cars, which reduce the risks of major injury or death from a risky behavior (motorized transport being one of the most risky voluntary activities most of us undertake) by more than half, without requiring that we give up or even reduce our driving.
 But while public health advocates strongly support harm reduction interventions in activities that range from the use of cars to the use of heroin, the anti-tobacco industry has aggressively fought against harm reduction in the use of tobacco.  Their position has been, and mostly continues to be, that smokers should just quit, and if they do not comply with that, then they should just be allowed to die from their behavior.

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	There is perhaps no area that better exemplifies Tobacco Control's tactics -- as well as their disdain for honest science and their fundamental lack of concern for human welfare -- as their responses to efforts to reduce the risk from tobacco/nicotine use. Their ongoing opposition to risk reduction (aka harm reduction; tobacco harm reduction (THR)) makes clear that while they might be part of "public health" (the political movement that has taken that name) they are not particularly concerned with public health.		There is perhaps no area that better exemplifies Tobacco Control's tactics -- as well as their disdain for honest science and their fundamental lack of concern for human welfare -- as their responses to efforts to reduce the risk from tobacco/nicotine use. Their ongoing opposition to risk reduction (aka harm reduction; tobacco harm reduction (THR)) makes clear that while they might be part of "public health" (the political movement that has taken that name) they are not particularly concerned with public health.

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	There is perhaps no area that better exemplifies Tobacco Control's tactics -- as well as their disdain for honest science and their fundamental lack of concern for human welfare -- as their responses to efforts to reduce the risk from tobacco/nicotine use. Their ongoing opposition to risk reduction (aka harm reduction; tobacco harm reduction (THR)) makes clear that while they might be part of "public health" (the political movement that has taken that name) they are not particularly concerned with public health.		There is perhaps no area that better exemplifies Tobacco Control's tactics -- as well as their disdain for honest science and their fundamental lack of concern for human welfare -- as their responses to efforts to reduce the risk from tobacco/nicotine use. Their ongoing opposition to risk reduction (aka harm reduction; tobacco harm reduction (THR)) makes clear that while they might be part of "public health" (the political movement that has taken that name) they are not particularly concerned with public health.

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 There is perhaps no area that better exemplifies Tobacco Control's tactics -- as well as their disdain for honest science and their fundamental lack of concern for human welfare -- as their responses to efforts to reduce the risk from tobacco/nicotine use.  Their ongoing opposition to risk reduction (aka harm reduction; tobacco harm reduction (THR)) makes clear that while they might be part of "public health" (the political movement that has taken that name) they are not particularly concerned with public health.
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 All of these motivations have one thing in common:  They create the incentive to oppose anything that reduces the harm from smoking.  Only by keeping the harm as great as it is can they justify their existence, but also that is the only way they have any chance of eliminating tobacco use.  Smokers have an obvious major motivation to quit.  Users of low-risk alternatives do not.
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