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The right to health and the right to tobacco harm reduction

Le droit à la santé et le droit à la réduction des risques du tabac
June 1, 2022
Knowledge-Action-Change

Jun
2022

Tobacco harm reduction is not only a potentially life-saving public health intervention for the world’s 1.1 billion smokers, it's also supported by international human rights law. Here we make the case for promoting tobacco harm reduction as a health rights issue.

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