There is debate within the harm-reduction community about vaping or "e-cigarettes." This debate points to two different understandings of what harm reduction is.
With the influence of medicine and public health in addiction, the provider perspective is often foregrounded.is the strategy of reducing the harms associated with drug use, not necessarily by reducing the amount that people use but by reducing the harms associated with use. Providing syringes to people who use injectable drugs is one example. This may not reduce the amount of drugs used, but it reduces the harms associated with use.
Yet, it is controversial. Some are concerned about the risks of vaping products themselves. The American Thoracic Society, for example,"e-cigarettes are not ‘safe’ and the claims that e-cigarettes are a harm reduction tool remain unproven." Others are concerned by who is funding these technologies.
From the user perspective, harm reduction is a matter of obtaining a certain substance without incurring associated costs. Many people, for example, have a strong preference for nicotine, but none of those people want to raise their risk of cancer. From this perspective, it is more acceptable if some unknown risks remain, provided they likely are outweighed by the known risks of tobacco. And it is a matter of relative indifference, from this perspective, who is providing the interventions.
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