International Updates

25 February 2020 Madlen Davies, Ben Stockton, Matthew Chapman, and Tamasin Cave UNITED KINGDOM – The crowd screamed as Calvin Harris began his set at 2019’s Djakarta Warehouse Project, one of Asia’s biggest dance music […]

6 February 2020 Jamie Ducharme New Congressional documents reveal that e-cigarette maker Juul Labs pitched its products to at least eight Native American tribes, in a move tribal health advocates say is as disturbing as it is expected. “I […]

Smoking giants are flouting and skirting around Facebook and Instagram’s advertising rules, writes Andrew Rowell 4 February 2020 Big Tobacco likes to stay ahead of the curve – to survive, it has to. Its fundamental problem […]

13 February 2020 Chris Kirkham (Reuters) – E-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc bought online advertisements on teen-focused websites for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Seventeen magazine after it launched its product in 2015, according to a […]

30 January 2020 Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) Cigarette butts pile up in parks, beaches, streets and bus stops, places where all types of littering are frowned upon. Best estimates are that over five trillion […]

The policy allows mint, dessert and fruit flavors to continue to be sold in disposable e-cigarettes, prompting many teens to switch from Juul to those devices. 31 January 2020 Sheila Kaplan The Food and Drug […]

Experts say campaigns aimed at explaining the dangers of e-cigarettes are just ‘a drop in the ocean’ compared to the massive volume of pro-vape marketing online 23 January 2020 Jacob Dube While a teen is […]

The tobacco industry makes a hue and cry about high taxation and smuggling every time irregularities in the industry are brought up. But even as they badger the government into curbing smuggling, here is how […]

21 January 2020 Robert Predit TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The epidemic of addictive vaping among youth continues, with e-cigarette devices by Juul continuing to surge in popularity among teens and young adults, […]

Twenty years after B.C. sued, settlement negotiations move behind closed doors. 17 January 2020 Andrew MacLeod The long legal battle to try and force tobacco companies to pay for the damage done by their products […]