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Should smokers be offered assistance with stopping?
Author(s) -
WEST ROBERT,
McNEILL ANN,
BRITTON JOHN,
BAULD LINDA,
RAW MARTIN,
HAJEK PETER,
ARNOTT DEBORAH,
JARVIS MARTIN,
STAPLETON JOHN
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03111.x
Subject(s) - tobacco control , smoking cessation , population , control (management) , constructive , convention , medicine , point (geometry) , political science , psychology , law , environmental health , computer science , public health , nursing , artificial intelligence , geometry , mathematics , process (computing) , pathology , operating system
Many governments are actively considering whether and how to provide their population with assistance with smoking cessation. Arguments have been raised against this, but these are often based on fallacies (e.g. most smokers stop without help so assistance is unnecessary). This editorial counters these fallacies so that a constructive debate can be had about the role of cessation assistance in the tobacco control strategies for a given population.