A hundred years ago, tobacco companies invoked the idea, if not the specific language, of harm reduction when they marketed their cigarettes as a healthy alternative to candy
It is a statement of how one chooses to live
We have responded to a few fires recently that were caused by smoking materials left unattended or discarded improperly
Some chemicals present in e-cigarette aerosols, such as formaldehyde and acrolein, can cause DNA damage and mutagenesis that can lead to cancer, and long-term exposure to e-cigarette aerosols could increase the risk of cancer and adverse reproductive outcomes
The behavioral risk factor public health surveillance system
However, emerging research indicates that EC aerosols contain harmful ingredients including ultrafine particles, volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals