This year’s World No Tobacco Day rightly highlights the importance helping tobacco farmers transition to sustainable, nutritious crops under the banner, “Grow food, not tobacco.” Securing the future for tobacco farmers and the communities in which they live in countries like Malawi is essential. But does the ‘tobacco’ in World No Tobacco Day also distract from the core objective – saving lives by helping people quit smoking? A long-standing, well-respected principle in toxicology, dating back to the Renaissance scientist Paracelsus in the 1500s, states “Only the dose makes the poison.” On the one hand, this means substances we normally consider

World No Tobacco Day or No Smoke Day as seen on The Hippocratic Post.