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Harm reduction & product regulation

ASH campaigns for harm reduction and product regulation at both the UK and EU level as part of a long-term strategy to promote better regulation of tobacco and nicotine products.

Regulating nicotine products

Tobacco is a unique consumer product: there is no safe level of use and half of all life-long smokers die prematurely from smoking-related diseases. ...

Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarettes

Cigarette-started fires cause death, disfigurement and distress which could be easily prevented by simple design changes. The tobacco industry has ha ...

Warning labels

Warnings on tobacco products inform people of the health risks of smoking. They can help deter young people from taking up smoking and also help smok ...

Low tar cigarettes

For many decades the tobacco industry succeeded in persuading smokers that low tar cigarettes were less hazardous than higher tar variants. However t ...

Harm Reduction

Tobacco is a uniquely dangerous consumer product and there is no safe level of use. Most of the harm comes from the poisons in tobacco smoke. Smokele ...