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smoking harm reduction

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there are supplements or drugs that can reduce effectively the harm from smoking?
(apart stopping smoking!)

i've found interesting papers about acetylcysteine

N-acetylcysteine improves microcirculatory flow during smoking: new effects of an old drug with possible benefits for smokers.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11444642

N-acetylcysteine protection against the toxicity of cigarette smoke and cigarette smoke condensates in various tissues and cells in vitro.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3862605

Protection by N-acetylcysteine of the histopathological and cytogenetical damage produced by exposure of rats to cigarette smoke.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1611595

N-acetylcysteine prevents cigarette smoke induced small airways
alterations in rats
http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/15/3/505.full.pdf

Protective action of sulfur compounds against aldehyde toxicants of cigarette smoke.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3862602


and about vitamin c
Vitamin C prevents cigarette smoke-induced leukocyte aggregation
and adhesion to endothelium in vivo
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC44467/pdf/pnas01138-0317.pdf

about charcoal filters
Activated charcoal filter effectively reduces p-benzosemiquinone from the mainstream cigarette smoke and prevents emphysema
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1714628j5227v63p/

Scope for regulation of cigarette smoke toxicity: the case for including charcoal filters
http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/118-1213/1402/

Charcoal cigarette filters and lung cancer risk in Aichi
Prefecture, Japan
http://epiville.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/assets/pdfs/Stellman1.pdf

which other methods of harm reduction exist?
 
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