Editing Harm reduction (section)

=====Tobacco=====
{{Main|Tobacco harm reduction}}
Tobacco harm reduction describes actions taken to lower the health risks associated with using tobacco, especially combustible forms, without abstaining completely from tobacco and nicotine. Some of these measures include switching to safer (lower tar) cigarettes, switching to [[snus]] or [[dipping tobacco]], or using a non-tobacco nicotine delivery systems. In recent years, the growing use of [[electronic cigarette]]s (or vaping) for [[smoking cessation]], whose long-term safety remains uncertain, has sparked an ongoing controversy among medical and public health between those who seek to restrict and discourage all use until more is known and those who see them as a useful approach for harm reduction, whose risks are most unlikely to equal those of smoking tobacco.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Farsalinos |first1=Konstantinos |last2=LeHouezec |first2=Jacques |date=September 2015 |title=Regulation in the face of uncertainty: the evidence on electronic nicotine delivery systems (e-cigarettes) |journal=Risk Management and Healthcare Policy |volume=8 |pages=157–167 |doi=10.2147/RMHP.S62116 |pmc=4598199 |pmid=26457058 |doi-access=free}}</ref> "Their usefulness in tobacco harm reduction as a substitute for [[tobacco products]] is unclear",<ref name="Drummond2014">{{Cite journal |last1=Drummond |first1=M. Bradley |last2=Upson |first2=Dona |date=February 2014 |title=Electronic Cigarettes. Potential Harms and Benefits |journal=Annals of the American Thoracic Society |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=236–242 |doi=10.1513/AnnalsATS.201311-391FR |pmc=5469426 |pmid=24575993}}</ref> but in an effort to [[tobacco control movement|decrease tobacco related death and disease]], they have a potential to be part of the strategy.<ref name="Cahn2011">{{Cite journal |last1=Cahn |first1=Zachary |last2=Siegel |first2=Michael |date=February 2011 |title=Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy for tobacco control: A step forward or a repeat of past mistakes? |journal=Journal of Public Health Policy |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=16–31 |doi=10.1057/jphp.2010.41 |pmid=21150942 |doi-access=free}}</ref>