In the tobacco-control community, however, harm reduction has been interpreted somewhat differently, often pitting committed practitioners against each other, with one side arguing that the only path to eliminating the scourge of combusted tobacco use is abstinence from all forms of tobacco and nicotine (with the possible exception of Food and Drug Administration [FDA]approved nicotine-replacement therapy [NRT]), whereas the other side argues that it is combusted cigarettes that should be eliminated because they are responsible for the overwhelming portion of the damage from tobacco use and it is nonsensical to dismiss less harmful nicotine alternatives by demanding absolute safety
NPR: PAVe Advocate, Nancy Heredia-Villanueva, and Dorian Fuhrman, co-founder of Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes, speak to NPR about the illegal e-cigarette black market and the importance of enforcement to curb the youth vaping epidemic
States across the nation are pitching their own regulations after the FDA announced Dec
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In the Eurobarometer survey, performed on the European Union population in 2012, only 7.2% of people aged 15 years or older reported having ever used e-cigarettes