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The best results are achieved when clinicians offer both behavioural support (see: Behavioural support for patients attempting to become smokefree) and prescribe smoking cessation medicines (see: A focus on pharmacological support) in combination

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Some health activists want to ban all cigarette sales

RESEARCH CAPSULE Habitual Caffeine Use Is No Protection Coffee promoters are fond of claiming that the drugs negative side effects somehow wear off as you develop a tolerance to caffeine, but research does not support that claim

Among e-cigarette users, two studies of biomarker data for acrolein, a potent respiratory irritant, found levels consistent with nonsmoking levels. My frustration is that the FDA, through its priorities and recent actions, is inadvertently reinforcing misinformation that interferes with the goal of protecting the public health by focusing on nicotine reduction at the expense of true harm reduction