Kevin Garcia

    Kevin is a tobacco harm reduction fellow for Filter. He began working in harm reduction as a health educator, providing street-based syringe access services for people who inject drugs. He was later a bilingual medical case manager, providing case management for people living with HIV/AIDS. He has also been a chapter leader and member of the board of directors at Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

    Kevin’s fellowship is supported by an independently administered tobacco harm reduction scholarship from Knowledge-Action-Change—an organization that has separately provided restricted grants and donations to support Filter.

    Tobacco Fairs, Free NRT and Few Vapes: A Conversation in Cuba

    Winning a prize for my laughable “dancing” skills at a bar in Havana was ...

    People in Wider Harm Reduction Discuss Integrating Tobacco

    The 13th National Harm Reduction Conference took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico in ...

    Evidence Mounts That Cigarette Sales Surge After Vape Bans

    State-level vaping bans are associated with increases in cigarette sales, according to new research. ...

    A Study Was Claimed to Link Vapes to Cigarette “Relapse”—Let’s take a Look

    In October, Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that claimed e-cigs ...

    Denver Passes Ban on Sales of Flavored Vaping Products

    [Update, December 12: A few days after the publication of this report, Denver Mayor ...

    Heated Denver Council Hearing Debates Vape Flavors Ban

    On October 6, Denver City Council (specifically the Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee) ...

    How Can We Integrate Nicotine Into Harm Reduction Programs?

    Vaping and forms of smokeless tobacco have gained popularity as harm reduction options for ...

    Vaping Does Not Cause Heart Attacks, Study Finds, Refuting Previous Claims

    E-cigarettes are not associated with increased heart attack incidence among people without a history ...

    “Alarmingly High” Number of US Doctors Think Nicotine Causes Cancer

    More than 75 percent of US physicians wrongly believe that nicotine directly contributes to ...

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