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='''Smoking Harm Reduction vs Nicotine Abstinence'''=
='''Smoking Harm Reduction vs Nicotine Abstinence'''=
=== 2023: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37061812/ Nicotine - friend or foe? The complex interplay between its role in dependence, harm reduction and risk communication.] ===
* Clearly, no one wants to see a generation of nicotine-dependent youth, and more effective measures to limit access to nicotine, especially combustible nicotine, are needed. But when it comes to communicating research to the wider public, we must avoid conflating the relatively limited harm of nicotine dependence with its effects on maintaining tobacco addiction, and therefore well-established tobacco-related harm, not least because of the impact this has on risk perceptions of those most in need of nicotine-based treatment: Tobacco users.


===2021: [https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/attachments/research_papers/mixed/Commentary_600.pdf The Taxation of Nicotine in Canada: A Harm-Reduction Approach to the Profusion of New Products]===
===2021: [https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/attachments/research_papers/mixed/Commentary_600.pdf The Taxation of Nicotine in Canada: A Harm-Reduction Approach to the Profusion of New Products]===