The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health

The Tobacco Control movement has made a number of serious mistakes. They include the Low Tar Program; fighting among ourselves; stretching science beyond reason; allowing a division to develop between science and activism; failure to resolve conflicts between religious based enthusiasm and pragmatism; Failure to confront the ongoing status of nicotine addiction; failure to embrace the principle of harm reduction; failure to regulate the cigarette.

All these mistakes were made with the best of intentions, but the harmony of policy in the 1980's is lacking in 2006