‘Tobacco harm reduction (THR) can be particularly beneficial, as it would allow smokers to switch to less harmful alternatives in their journey to quit completely,’ said Dr Arifin Fii, a medical practitioner with experience in addiction therapy.
THE Covid-19 pandemic has hit an unprepared world hard, but what is more devastating is the deaths caused by the decades-old tobacco pandemic.
Smoking is not only the most common form of tobacco use but one of the leading preventable risk factors for premature mortality worldwide – killing more than eight million people a year, including non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.
