Does a human rights-based approach to harm reduction support commercialized harm reduction? Brief research.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, the tobacco industry has been pushing a narrative that their newer lines of products-including electronic nicotine delivery devices-are offered in part to meet a social responsibility of providing potentially reduced-harm choices to their consumers. While some of the newer tobacco products might potentially be less harmful than combustible tobacco products, there is also significant deviation from the very concept of harm reduction when it is used for such a conspicuously commercialized purpose. The framing of commercialized tobacco harm reduction as a mere consumer preference by the industry is not clearly consistent with the core principles of harm reduction, let alone the human right to health and the highest attainable level of health. A human rights-based approach (HR

SUBMITTER: Sircar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9645767 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature