Taylor Millard has written a very nice piece at Inside Sources which reports the results of a new survey showing that a tragically low percentage of physicians are providing smokers with the facts about less harmful alternatives to smoking. This he attributes to the failure of the FDA as well as anti-tobacco organizations to endorse harm reduction, but instead to take a prohibition approach. As Millard notes: "Advocates for moving smokers to pouches and other products are getting pushback from activist groups that support a total-prohibition approach to tobacco and nicotine. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a prohibitionist organization, denounced the FDA’s decision to authorize the marketing of Zyn nicotine pouch products in January." I'll let the piece speak for itself, but merely note the irony that Philip Morris, but not the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids or other anti-tobacco groups, is encouraging smoking cessation by switching to much safer alternatives. The health groups seem perfectly content to have the 28 million current smokers in the United States continue smoking if they are unable to quit using drugs.
