Tobacco Harm Reduction

Dear Colleagues,

Tobacco Harm Reduction has been a controversial area in public health, largely due to the promotion by the tobacco industry of cigarette modifications that gave the appearance of reduced harm, without reducing health risk. This may have increased overall harm by discouraging smokers from quitting. However, there is now good evidence that switching from cigarettes to some alternate nicotine and tobacco products can reduce exposure to harmful constituents and reduce health risk. The Swedish experience with snus, a form of oral snuff manufactured to limit the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines, is an example of an alternate tobacco product with long-term epidemiological evidence to support its much lower risk profile. Newer products, such as e-cigarettes and other vaping devices and heated tobacco products are generating substantial interest. While this is a rapidly advancing research field, the recent National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Report on the Public Health Consequences of E-cigarettes has identified a number of priority areas for research to help fill some of the gaps in evidence on these alternate nicotine and tobacco products. This Special Issue of IJERPH on Tobacco Harm Reduction welcomes submissions on these priority research areas and other research that advances our understanding of the potential place of tobacco harm reduction within a comprehensive strategy to reduce the burden of smoking related disease and assists policy makers to determine what level of regulation is most appropriate.

Assoc. Prof. Coral Gartner
Dr. Ratika Sharma-Kumar
Dr. Kylie Morphett
Guest Editors

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