25 July 2019E. Ulysses Dorotheo, MD, FPAO The writer is Executive Director of Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA). BANGKOK (IDN) – Many corporations make money at the expense of the public interest, but the

7 July 2019 Mandy Squires Shops tempt young CHILDREN as young as 12 are taking up vaping — lured with lolly flavours and in the mistaken belief it is safe.  Record numbers of teens and

3 July 2019 Media Release Three in five Australian young adults who currently use e-cigarettes are likely to initiate tobacco cigarette smoking in the next six months, new research led by Curtin University has found.

1 July 2019 University of California – Riverside A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural

28 June 2019 University of California – Riverside Thirdhand smoke can damage epithelial cells in the respiratory system by stressing cells and causing them to fight for survival, a research team led by scientists at

25 June 2019 Linda Carroll While smoking boosts the likelihood of heart attack in both men and women of all ages, it has a much more powerful effect in younger women, especially those under 50,

20 June 2019 Nicole Munro The Canadian Cancer Society is calling on the Nova Scotia government to raise the legal age for buying tobacco and vaping products from 19 to 21. The plea comes after

20 June 2019 Annika Neklason The e-cigarette giant is relying on some awfully familiar tactics to distinguish its products. Out of a firestorm of controversy over teen nicotine use, Juul Labs emerged in January with a newly

17 June 2019 Professor Simon Capewell Supposedly ’95 per cent safer than smoking’, promoted as a shortcut to quitting and offered in an array of flavours (bubblegum or cola, anyone?), it’s no surprise vaping —

19 June 2019 Sheila Kaplan Kailani Burton bought a vaping kit for her teenage son Austin, hoping he would use it to quit smoking. In March of last year, she and her husband were sitting

17 June 2019 Tom Dreisbach Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says one of his “highest priorities” is to take on the leading cause of preventable death in the United States: smoking. McConnell has sponsored

14 June 2019 Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Children who are exposed to tobacco smoke from their fathers while they’re in the womb may be more likely than those who are not to develop asthma

14 June 2019 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Like the infamous “Joe Camel” advertisements for cigarettes in the 1980s and 90s, the use of cartoon characters in ads for e-cigarettes and e-liquids may be attracting young

11 June 2019 A retired scientist faults the company for trying to recruit researchers who will produce science it can rely on for public relations purposes. Juul’s effort to fund scientists who research the health

7 June 2019 AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY E-cigarette vaping with nicotine appears to hamper mucus clearance from the airways, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care

14 June 2019 Wendell Balderas BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 14 2019 (IPS) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision authorizing the sale of Philip Morris International (PMI)’s heated tobacco system, IQOS, in the United States

13 June 2019 Lachlan Markay In a little noticed letter, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) demanded extensive internal records from the vaping company. A key House committee has opened an investigation into nicotine vape giant Juul

May 31, 2019 Thomas Moore Many firms’ policies put little to no daylight between vaping and Big Tobacco Under intense scrutiny from the federal government, the e-cigarette industry won’t be able to turn to much

5 June 2019 Sonja Sharp Beverly Hills has passed what experts say is the most restrictive tobacco ban in the nation, barring the sale of virtually all nicotine products and setting the stage for similar

27 May 2019 Sheila Kaplan LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Alex Carll was presenting his research about the impact of e-cigarette smoke on mouse hearts at an American Heart Association conference when a man from Juul Labs

30 May 2019 Agence France-Presse WHO voices concern at attempts by Philip Morris International to co-opt international efforts for its own campaign this week promoting new vaping and heated tobacco products as part of the

29 May 2019 UN Ahead of World No Tobacco Day, marked on Friday, 31 May, WHO’s Dr Vinayak Prasad, Acting Director, Department for the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, highlighted the damage that tobacco causes to the

14 May 2019 A ban on displaying cigarettes and tobacco at shop counters has reduced the risk of young people taking up smoking, according to a new study. Tobacco products have been hidden from point-of-sale

13 May 2019 While companies are prohibited from discriminating against applicants based on gender or disabilities, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry determined such protections do not apply to smokers Domestic firms are taking stronger

18 May 2019 Tim Elliott With health authorities stubbing out much of Big Tobacco’s business, and vaping on the rise, one of the industry’s biggest players says it plans to stop selling cigarettes. Is that

14 May 2019 TEMPO.CO, Geneva – The World Health Organization published its first guidelines on the prevention and management of dementia on Tuesday, May 14. It puts physical activity at the top of its list of recommendations for preventing cognitive

15 May 2019 Judy Siegel-Itzkovich Public health experts in Britain, Israel and elsewhere are fuming over a recent statement by a government public health organization that claimed electronic cigarettes (e-cigs for vaping) are “95% safer”

11 May 2019 Chris Kirkham (Reuters) – Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc has suspended a global social media marketing campaign in response to Reuters inquiries into the company’s use of young online personalities to

3 May 2019 Emma Kate Fittes and Shari Rudavsky As more teens vape, schools have struggled to keep the practice in check. Now, some schools are seeing a worrisome twist — students vaping marijuana. Just as

2 May 2019 Canadian Press New regulations remove brand colours, fonts from packages Canadian cigarette packs will have to be plain, drab brown with standardized layouts and lettering under new rules that kick in Nov.

25 April 2019 Jane Dalton ‘Industry chiefs hid evidence that smoking was heavily addictive,’ lawyers claim A former tobacco salesman who was given free cigarettes as a perk of the job and now has inoperable lung cancer is hoping

24 April 2019 Lizzi Parry The new Harvard study adds to growing evidence that the devices are not harmless MOST e-cigarettes are contaminated with nasty toxins, experts have warned. The bacterial and fungal bugs increase

23 Apirl 2019 Victoria Allan A leading academic has criticised health officials for ‘promoting’ e-cigarettes despite growing evidence of their harms. Professor Martin McKee, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said there are grounds for

22 April 2019 Linda Carroll New study is one of the first to show through urine samples how much nicotine young people are getting from e-cigarettes. Many teens who use e-cigarettes aren’t aware they are inhaling

1 May 2019 Health Canada Reducing the appeal of tobacco products will help to protect the health of Canadians from tobacco-related death and disease  OTTAWA, May 1, 2019 /CNW/ – Despite decades of effort to reduce tobacco use, it remains

29 Apirl 2019 Josh Fiallo Keep your ice at home now, too. If being able to light a smoke at Walt Disney World was on your bucket list, Tuesday may be your last day to

23 April 2019 Brett Molina Many teens who use e-cigarettes are often unaware of the amount of nicotine they ingest, a study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests. The study, published online Monday, surveyed 500 teens between

23 April 2019 Sarantis Michalopoulos  Smoking is a form of slavery and is completely incompatible with widely recognised human rights, activists against smoking have said. They also criticised the so-called novel tobacco products for muddying

15 April 2019 Zach Schlein The complaint alleges the e-cigarette company and Altria Group knowingly withheld information from consumers, specifically teenage users, about the addictive nature of JUULs. Juul electronic cigarette and packaging with nicotine

Ulysses Dorotheo Dr. Ulysses Dorotheo is Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA)* BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 11 2019 (IPS) – The image of a smoking toddler from Indonesia horrified the world but did little

8 April 2019 Michael Nedelman (CNN)Leading e-cigarette company Juul Labs is under the microscope again, with 11 senators demanding answers from the company at the center of the youth vaping “epidemic” whose business practices have

3 April 2019 Jayne O’Donnell At least 35 people reported seizures after using electronic cigarettes over the past decade, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.  FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency is investigating the incidents,

2 April 2019 Pat Ranald: Australia scored a victory over the tobacco giant Philip Morris in the High Court in 2012. The court held that Australia’s plain cigarette packaging laws were legal and did not constitute an

29 March 2019 Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez (CNN)More American adults perceive electronic cigarettes to be as harmful as or more harmful than regular cigarettes, according to a new analysis. The researchers examined data from the Tobacco

18 March 2019 Consumer Reports: Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. The promise of electronic cigarettes is straightforward: Lifelong smokers can wean themselves off a toxic habit in favor

14 March 2018 Agence France Presse: The World Health Organization called Thursday for better enforcement of bans on tobacco advertising at sporting events, after tobacco companies discretely reentered sponsorship deals with Formula 1 teams. “WHO

15 March 2019 Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s health ministry has called for Juul Labs Inc’s electronic cigarettes to be blocked from entering the country, a letter seen by Reuters showed, potentially dealing

14 March 2019 Marry Assunta and Wendell Balderas Inter Press Service: BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 14 2019 (IPS) – International Women’s Day on 8 March recognized and celebrated the progress women are making globally. The day also

8 March 2019 Nicole Wetsman Popular Science: Public health conversations around vaping usually focus on the challenges of keeping young, non-smokers away from the devices, and how to reconcile that with their potential ability to