2005 - Tobacco Smoking: Harm Reduction Strategies

Despite some tangible results, characterised by a slow progressive decrease in the number of smokers, related to the gradual awareness of the population about the health effects of tobacco smoking, a large group of smokers cannot or do not want to give up tobacco smoking, and, eventually, one out of two lifelong smokers will die of smoking related illnesses.

The main goals of this Seminar are to describe what is known, unknown, knowable, and unknowable, and how any harm reduction policy could fit within "denormalisation" and the "mainstream" tobacco/nicotine control policy.