1 March 2021 Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca In a letter sent on February 16, 2021 over 130 public health organizations and experts around the world have challenged the American Public Health Association (APHA) to stop publishing and legitimizing the deadly deception of the tobacco industry. APHA’s conduct violates the call of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Federation of Public …
26 January 2021 Philip Jakpor, The Niche: Nigeria’s 2021 national budget has not disappointed pessimists. Like previous years public health was relegated to the back seat in terms of priority and funding. The breakdown of the approved budget shows that the health sector received only N547 billion (five hundred and forty-seven billion naira), representing about …
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15 January 2021 The Journal: Several accusations have been made by the former anti-smoking foundation’s director of social media. A FORMER EMPLOYEE has filed a suit against the Smoke-Free World foundation, charging she was fired after raising concerns the non-profit was taking orders from tobacco companies, including promoting teen vaping. In the whistleblower suit filed …
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5 January 2021 PR News Wire Their Ordinances to Ban the Sale of Tobacco Are in Effect Today SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On January 1st, two cities in California made giant strides for public health by removing tobacco products from stores. Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, became the only jurisdictions in the U.S. to eliminate the sale of commercial tobacco, although …
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11 January 2021 University of California – San Diago, Eurekalert: Age at first use and number of tobacco products consumed also increases addiction risk An analysis of a large nationally representative longitudinal study by University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science report that starting tobacco products, including …
Youth using e-cigarettes three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers Read More »
11 January 2021 Carolyn Jarvis & Emanuela Campanella, Global News: Under a winter’s snow cover on the outskirts of Quebec City, a high-tech greenhouse, set at a balmy 23 C, is growing row after row of a weed that could help end the coronavirus pandemic. It’s called Nicotiana benthamiana, a relative of the tobacco plant, native to …
6 January, 2021 King’s College London, Science Daily: Smoking is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms and smokers are more likely to attend hospital than non-smokers, a study has found. The study published today in Thorax, by researchers from King’s College London, investigates the association between smoking and the severity of the COVID-19. Researchers …
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9 December 2020 Ruth E Malone, BMJ Journals: Abstract Tobacco Control as a journal has long been focused not only on addressing the negative disease-promoting impacts of tobacco products but on the industry that produced them. From its inception, the journal has had a normative aim. Tobacco Control is focused primarily on research and analysis that advance understanding …
16 December 2020 Ohio State University: Eurekalert: COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new study offers strong evidence that kids who use e-cigarettes are more likely to take up smoking or smokeless tobacco, researchers say. Teen boys who vaped were almost three times as likely to start smoking as other teen boys with similar risk profiles and …
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December 2020 Chris Bostic, Marita Hefler, Guy Muller, Mary Assunta, Tobacco Induced Diseases: Webinars during COP Week 2020Webinar WHO FCTC Article 2.1: The Overlooked Article’s Impact on Endgame In the absence of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people in tobacco control worldwide would have been at the Hague, Netherlands, from 9–14 November for the 9th Conference …
FCTC Article 2.1 and the next horizon in tobacco policy: Phasing out commercial sales Read More »