International Updates

19 February 2020 Cynthia Callard & Flory Doucas Over the past two decades, each of Canada’s provincial governments has filed a lawsuit against tobacco companies to recover the costs of treating diseases caused by the […]

12 February 2020 Sean Morrison Britain’s top medical officer has warned politicians against letting history repeat itself by allowing e-cigarettes to be “pushed” at young people. Professor Chris Whitty said the marketing of vaping products should be dealt with […]

The case, brought by Massachusetts after a lengthy investigation, presents some of the strongest evidence the vaping company was marketing to teenagers. 12 February 2020 Sheila Kaplan Juul Labs, the vaping company that has long […]

10 February 2020 Abstract Background In countries banning advertising and display of tobacco at point-of-sale, little is known about tobacco companies’ continuing promotion of products through incentives and benefits to retailers. Method A telephone survey of 4527 […]

29 February 2020 Adam Miller Health policy expert calls the campaign a ‘classic tobacco industry technique’ A major Canadian tobacco company has come under fire for a national advertising campaign that appears to downplay the […]

26 February 2020 Chris Kirkham (Reuters) – A group of 39 state attorneys general on Tuesday announced an investigation into Juul Labs Inc’s marketing practices, adding to mounting legal and regulatory problems for the e-cigarette […]

20 February 2020 Ivette Saldana & Perla Miranda By a presidential decree published on the Federal Official Gazette (DOF), from Thursday, February 20, the import of electronic cigarettes is forbidden to protect the Mexican population […]

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 […]