By researcher Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org What anti-smokers never seem to quite understand is that smoking is a pleasure.  It is not, as some have characterized it, a disease.  And any solutions or alternatives to smoking that are based on the ludicrous idea that people don’t actually enjoy it are bound to have dismal success [...]

The EU is asking for opinions on whether we should kill smokers. Or they might as well be doing. In the latest loony law to be considered by this undemocratic body, the European Union are considering banning all smokeless tobacco throughout Europe. That’s despite the fact that smokeless tobacco is a safer alternative to cigarettes, [...]

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We may not sell smokeless tobacco, but there is no doubt that it is a fantastic product that has saved the lives of thousands of ex-Swedish smokers. The country has the lowest rates of lung cancer in Europe – simply because many of its smokers have switched to safer forms of tobacco use. How safe [...]

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Would it make sense to ban something which may cause some harm in favour of something that we know for sure does cause a lot of harm? That’s what is proposed with electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes have been smoked for long enough and in enough quantities that we know they do not have negative effects [...]

Outlawing the healthy alternative… No, not the electronic cigarette, although we believe that is highly likely that the e-cigarette will be banned in time, but smokeless tobacco. It is not a new story, but one highly relevant today. Smokeless tobacco was outlawed in the UK and the rest of Europe apart from Sweden, which has [...]