The focus on youth obscured the fact that #combustible #tobacco use (i.e. #smoking) by older #adults didn't change for nearly two decades in the US.

A new paper, published in the American Journal of Public Health ( #AJPH), argues that older #adultswhosmoke are “forgotten" #tobacco #harmreduction is the key to fight #smokingrelatedillnesses & #death.

“They [older adult who keep smoking] don’t simply disappear or die. They are alive and they need our support.”
#THR
https://filtermag.org/older-smoking-forgotten/amp/