Health Affairs June 16, 2024
Publisher’s note: This post is paid for and provided by Global Action To End Smoking. The views expressed by the author are their own.
Scientifically, we have already solved the world’s leading cause of preventable death.
Decades of research have shown us that combustible tobacco – most commonly cigarettes – exposes an individual to a toxic soup of thousands of chemicals, including nearly 70 that cause cancer. We also have known for years that the nicotine in tobacco, though addictive, is not one of the many harmful chemicals that cause the devastating diseases resulting in 8 million smoking-related deaths annually.
In fact, when separated from those lethal combustible tobacco products, nicotine is approved as safe and effective in smoking...
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