International Updates

23 March 2023 By Natassia Chrysanthos, The Sydney Morning Herald Vape flavours would be banned, individual product packages would have warning labels and importers would need a permit to bring vapes into the country under a crackdown being recommended by the Therapeutic Goods Administration to stamp out vaping among young people. Australia will remain a global …

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17 March 2023 By Raouf Alebshehy, Karin Silver, Phil Chamberlain, Frontiers Background: The tobacco epidemic is global and addressing it requires global collaboration. International and national policies have been adopted to promote collaboration for tobacco control, including an obligation on diplomatic missions to protect public health from the vested interests of the tobacco industry. However, incidents …

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March 2023 By Action On Smoking & Health (ASH) The UN Environmental Assembly adopted a resolution to begin negotiations on an international, legally-binding treaty to end plastic pollution. These treaty negotiations offer an important opportunity to improve the health of people while improving the health of the planet. The first round of the International Negotiation …

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5 March 2023 By Simon Chapman, The Conversation When smoking first became popular we were told it was healthy, it was heavily marketed (including to young people) as being cool, and the time it took for us to learn otherwise was long, and came too late for many. Unfortunately, it seems history is repeating itself …

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25 February 2023 Khmer Times Visitors to Kampot will be enable to enjoy activities without being assailed by tobacco smoke after the Mayor of Kampot confirmed that the city has been designated as a no-smoking tourist destination. On February 23, 2023, at Srah Chhouk Resort, Kampot City, the city administration announced a campaign under the …

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27 February 2023 By Brendan Pierson, Reuters Feb 27 – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Los Angeles County’s ban on sales of flavored tobacco products brought by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which had argued that only the federal government – not state or local governments – has the …

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24 February 2023 By Rayane Tamer, SBS News Australia is working to combat what experts describe as a “vaping epidemic” as more studies reveal the dangerous impacts of e-cigarettes on young teenagers. But health experts are pleading with Australian regulators not to follow New Zealand’s model which has resulted in record-low smoking rates, but a …

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21 February 2023 England’s chief medical officer voices concern as vape use among 11- to 17-year-olds doubles in two years By Andrew Gregory, The Guardian Children are being targeted with “appalling” and “utterly unacceptable” marketing of vapes, England’s chief medical officer has said as he called for urgent action to reverse a rise in the …

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14 February 2023 By Kimberly Drake, healthnews Keck School of Medicine researchers discover that the levels of epithelial cell DNA damage in people who vape are virtually the same as people who smoke traditional cigarettes. E-cigarettes, or vapes, were once touted as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes. However, research is slowly revealing that vaping may …

Vaping Causes Similar DNA Damage as Smoking, Study Finds Read More »

15 February 2023 ASH Scotland ASA, the UK’s advertising regulator, has upheld a complaint from health charity ASH Scotland in its ruling about medicinal smoking cessation advertising claims by vaping company VPZ regarding its e-cigarette products. The Advertising Standards Authority’s UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising and Direct and Promotional Marketing (CAP Code) – the rule …

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