International Updates Archive

20 September 2021 European Lung Foundation Source: Mirage News For the first time in 25 years, rates of smoking among teenage boys in Ireland are increasing, according to a study published in ERJ Open Research.

16 September 2021 Julia Kollewe and Rob Davies Source: The Guardian Academics object to UK company’s sponsorship of pharmaceutical event after tobacco giant seals £1.1bn deal Asthma inhaler maker Vectura has been excluded from a pharmaceutical conference

21 September 2021 Source: STOP Reject tobacco participation in UNGA Side Events, such as the Concordia Summit The tobacco industry is a barrier to achieving the Global Goals. Its products harm the environment and kill more

9 September 2021 Associated Press Source: The Guardian FDA bans thousands of vaping products amid concern about appeal to teens but reserves decision on bestselling brand Federal health officials on Thursday delayed a high-stakes decision

8 September 2021 Donna Lu Source: The Guardian People under 20 who used vapes were found to be more than three times as likely to have ever smoked tobacco cigarettes Young people who use e-cigarettes

2 September 2020 Todd C. Frankel Source: The Washington Post World’s largest cigarette maker is making acquisitions as it pursues a ‘smoke-free’ future. Many scientists are doubtful. Ruth Tal-Singer spent more than two decades at

26 August 2021 Dan Diamond Source: The Washington Post The moves could be the first in larger agency crackdown on vaping products The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered three small e-cigarette manufacturers not

26 August 2021 Jim Carrier Source: The Washington Post The Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository is closing. It revealed millions of secrets. ST. PAUL, Minn. From a 15-foot industrial ladder, in the dim light of the

2 September 2021 Natassia Chrysanthos and Eryk Bagshaw. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Outside a factory in south-eastern China, 300 workers are being put through commando crawls. Their instructor tells them the only way for “wolves to

16 August 2021 Roengrudee Patanavanich, Stanton A. Glantz. Source: BMC Public Health Abstract Background Smoking impairs lung immune function and damages upper airways, increasing risks of contracting and severity of infectious diseases. This paper quantifies

16 August 2021 Qinghua Nian, Jeffrey J Hardesty, Joanna E Cohen1,  Xiangqiang Xie, Ryan David Kennedy. Source: BMJ Journal Abstract Objective This study, conducted in China, evaluated the effectiveness of four different themes of health warning labels

16 August 2021 Source: Vilnius University Press Abstract Tobacco has long been known to be one of the greatest causes of morbidity and mortality in the adults, but the effects on the foetus and young

12 August 2021 Julia Kollewe and Rupert Neate. Source: The Guardian UK health firm, which makes asthma inhalers, said the tobacco company’s bid was ‘fair and reasonable’ The board of the UK asthma inhaler maker Vectura has

9 August 2021 University of California Source: Science Daily The risk that both tobacco and electronic cigarettes can pose to regular smokers’ health has been well documented, but a new UCLA study illustrates just how

4 August 2021 University of California Source: Medical Express Purchase a pack of cigarettes in Australia and be prepared to be accosted with graphic warning labels depicting the dangers of tobacco use—including images of gangrene

13 August 2021 Emma Koehn Source: The Sydney Morning Herald The medicines regulator is urging e-cigarette users to make an appointment with a doctor before new laws kick in banning the import of nicotine vaping

11 August 2021 Dr Judith Mackay Source: China Daily Dr Judith Mackay says that governments, NGOs, teachers, parents and social media must do their part to keep children from becoming addicts Tobacco and Youth are

9 August 2021 Zaineb Danish Sheikh, J Robert Branston, Anna B Gilmore. Source: BMJ Journals Abstract Objective To explore what is known about the tobacco industry’s (TI) price-based responses to tobacco excise tax policies and whether

10 August 2021 Source: University of Bath Taxation is the most effective form of tobacco control, but the tobacco industry uses a variety of sophisticated pricing strategies to undermine tax increases. When a government budget

6 August 2021 Leonce Dieudonné Sessou. Source: Devex The tobacco industry likes to portray itself as a positive economic force. Yet tobacco farmers across Africa face a harsh economic reality: The industry derives such huge

1 August 2021 Source: The Telegraph Future partnerships with academic institutions are in jeopardy due to policies that prohibit funding being accepted from tobacco firms Vectura, the lung drug developer, risks being blocked from university

29 July 2021 Talha Khan Burki. Source: The Lancet The COVID-19 pandemic does not seem to have done much damage to the tobacco industry. “Beyond disruption to supply chains, analysts believe the short-term impact of

27 July 2021 Source: World Health Organization Highlights threats posed by new nicotine and tobacco products Many countries are making progress in the fight against tobacco, but a new World Health Organization report shows some

29 July 2021 Source: Business Matters Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco (BAT) have been busy diversifying their businesses, investing in new products to prove they are moving beyond cigarettes. After PMI signed off the controversial £1

19 July 2021 Jeremy Staff, Brian C. Kelly, Jennifer L. Maggs, Mike Vuolo. Source: Wiley Online Library ABSTRACT Aims To evaluate the catalyst, diversion, and common liability hypotheses by examining associations between e-cigarette use and tobacco cigarette smoking

26 July 2021 Mike Daube, Rob Moodie. Source: Insight+ IMAGINE an airline announcing that a “superspreader” had won its Passenger of the Year Award. Metcash – “Australia’s leading wholesale distribution and marketing company”, has managed a similar

12 July 2021 Manjari Peiris. Source: Daily Mail Online Very often we happen to find news published in print media about seizure of illicit cigarettes in Sri Lanka. What is Illicit Tobacco Trade? The World Health

14 July 2021 Ryan Basen. Source: MED Page Today  — E-cig maker sponsored nearly a dozen studies, took over journal as it awaits FDA ruling As e-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs waits for the FDA to

12 July 2021 Rachel Clun. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Cigarettes today are sold in drab olive-brown boxes, replete with yellow warning labels that shout “SMOKING KILLS” next to ugly photographs of gangrenous and rotting

21 June 2021 Jennifer Maloney. Source: The Wall Street Journal Tobacco firm Altria tells a judge its e-cigarette offering was lousy. Chalk it up to antitrust defense. Tobacco giant Altria Group Inc. is on trial,

28 June 2021 Dominic Rushe and agencies. Source: The Guardian Juul has agreed to pay $40m to the state of North Carolina to settle a lawsuit that accused the e-cigarette maker of marketing its products to minors.

9 June 2021 Renee D Goodwin, PhD, MPH. Source: Oxford Academic E-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco product among youth.1 E-cigarette use initiation is associated with increased risk of escalation to combustible tobacco

16 June 2021 Les Hagen Source: iPOLITICS ‘A national survey of 3,000 young vapers commissioned earlier this year by the Heart and Stroke Foundation found that mint/menthol is the second-most popular flavour among young users,

2 June 2021 Stéphane Horel, Ties Keyzer. Source: The BMJ Scientific papers suggesting that smokers are less likely to fall ill with covid-19 are being discredited as links to the tobacco industry are revealed, report Stéphane

A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 27 May 2021 GBD 2019 Tobacco Collaborators. Source: The Lancet Summary Background Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health.

26 May 2021 JeffreyWillettPhD, StephanAchenbachMD, Fausto J.PintoMD, PhD, AthenaPoppasMD, Mitchell S.V.ElkindMD, MS. Source: Science Direct Eradicating a Worsening Epidemic A Joint Opinion From the American Heart Association, World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, and

25 May 2021 Sheelah kolhatkar, Source: New York Times THE DEVIL’S PLAYBOOKBig Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New GenerationBy Lauren Etter Beginning around 2017, upper-middle-class parents who already had the threat of online

28 May 2021, Source: The Daffodil Centre New evidence reveals cancer risk increases with every cigarette, even for light smokers Today, in advance of World No Tobacco Day, The Daffodil Centre released an Australian first study, with

25 May 2021 Chris D’Angelo, Source: Huffpost Tobacco giant Altria is “feeding into the fears of Black folks” and “taking advantage of the climate of demand for social justice,” said one civil rights activist. The

22 May 2021 Sophia Barhdadi, Vera Rogiers, Eric Deconinck, Tamara Vanhaecke, Springer Link: Since its introduction more than a decade ago, the e-cigarette has gained an enormous popularity. One of the main reasons for the ever increasing

14 May 2021 Lauren Etter, Bloomberg: If you want to turn a secretive hedge fund manager and his deep-pocketed allies into activists, hook their kids on vaping. An excerpt from the new book The Devil’s Playbook.

12 May 2021 Muscat Baron Y, Mattioli 1885: Abstract There appears to be a connection between COVID-19 infection and an airborne microscopic pollutant called particulate matter which has been suggested to act as vector for

16 March 2021 Jiménez-Ruiz CA, López-Padilla D, Alonso-Arroyo A, Aleixandre-Benavent R, Solano-Reina S, de Granda-Orive JI, Science Direct: To the Editor, We would like to thank Moril et al.1 for their interest in our paper and

17 May 2021 Alain Braillon, MD, PhD, JAMA Network: To the Editor Lowe et al1 must be commended for being the first to my knowledge to publish a study in a core clinical journal showing evidence that

17 May 2021 Bangkok: SEATCA joins renowned organizations in tobacco control in expressing concern over the tobacco industry’s sponsorship in the 26th International Conference on the Future of Asia. The letter reminds the secretariat of