Can Tobacco Harm Reduction Work for India's Poor?

Argues that harm reduction — making lower-risk alternatives available and affordable — matters specifically for India’s poor, since conventional control measures like tax increases push economically vulnerable users toward cheaper, more dangerous products rather than addressing why tobacco use is prevalent in these communities in the first place: nicotine helps alleviate hunger for many living in poverty, and the cessation support that exists (mostly phone counselling) has little reach into poor communities, while NRTs remain unaffordable despite WHO essential-medicine status.