discourage smokers

Speak to most smokers and a familiar pattern begins to emerge. Many say they want to quit. Some have tried more than once. A few have even stopped for weeks or months before starting again. The gap is not always in intention. It is in the ability to sustain that decision. In Pakistan, where more…

Dr. Rasool says treating all nicotine products as equally harmful ignores important scientific distinctions and may hinder efforts to move smokers away from cigarettes. There is a common assumption that if a product contains nicotine, it is equally harmful. Dr. Prof. Syed Ishtiaq Rasool, an interventional cardiologist, says that assumption oversimplifies the science in ways…