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

6 March 2019 Aditya Kalra Reuters:  NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Philip Morris International Inc has for years paid manufacturing costs to its Indian partner to make its Marlboro cigarettes, circumventing a nine-year-old government ban on

5 March 2019 Paralympic.org: Ban extended to heated tobacco products and other vaping devices. The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced that smoking will not be permitted at any of the Olympic or Paralympic venues for the duration

2 March 2019 Camilla Turner Telegraph: Tobacco companies are using e-cigarettes and “heat not burn” products as a “Trojan Horse” in an attempt to undermine tobacco control regulations and “rehabilitate” their image, experts have warned.

20 February 2019 Katherine Wilton Montreal Gazette A Laval private school principal expelled six students and warns “vaping is a real problem in our schools and the students don’t think it’s a big deal.” Myriam

16 February 2019 Brendon Stiles and Steve Alperin The Guardian Since 2011, e-cigarettes and vaping has increased in teens since 2011, and we still don’t know the long-term health effects Today, it seems so obvious. Cigarettes

11 February 2019 Angelica LaVito CNBC: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is blaming nicotine vaping devices like Juul for single-handedly driving a spike in tobacco use among teens, threatening to erase years of

11 February 2019 Emma Russell NZherald: Vaping of high concentration causes the same toxic damage to lung cells as traditional cigarettes, a new study has found. Researchers say the study suggests newer electronic nicotine delivery

11 January 2019 Xinhua: BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — Experts called for an outright ban on smoking throughout China’s railway network, after air quality inspections found dangerous levels of harmful pollutants on slow trains, most

6 February 2019 Gerardo Fortuna and Sarantis Michalopoulos Euractiv: The European Commission is “reluctant” to sit with the tobacco industry at the same table to discuss novel tobacco products such as e-cigarettes, a high-ranking EU official has said.

6 February 2019 Adam McCleery  Daily Mail Australia: A baby has died after allegedly being exposed to toxic levels of liquid nicotine from an e-cigarette the Victorian Coroner has found.  The Victorian Coroner’s office is

5 February 2019 BBC News: An exploding vaporiser pen resulted in the death of a 24-year-old Texas man, a post-mortem examination has ruled. The pen’s battery blew up when William Brown tried to use it,

1 February 2019 Linda Carroll Reuters: (Reuters Health) – Among teens, using e-cigarettes may raise the risk of progressing to cigarette smoking, a new U.S. study suggests. Overall, adolescents who used e-cigarettes before trying any

23 January 2019 Jessica Glenza The Guardian More than 100 free-market thinktanks from North America to Europe and south Asia took positions helpful to the tobacco industry or donations, Guardian investigation shows How tobacco industry

21 January 2019 Olivia Willis ABC News Nicotine, the addictive agent found in tobacco cigarettes, has been discovered in a number of e-cigarette liquids claiming to be free of it. Key points: The sale of

11 January 2019Kevin RooseThe New York Times Juul Labs, the company behind the insanely popular vaping device, has a message for the nation’s estimated 37.8 million adult smokers: It really, really, really cares about them.

7 January 2019 Naomi Thomas CNN (CNN)Retail licensing requirements written with cigarettes in mind could be helping lower the risk of teenagers using other tobacco products such as e-cigarettes. According to a study published Monday

4 January 2019 Sheila Kaplan The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is accusing Juul and Altria of reneging on promises they made to the government to keep e-cigarettes away from

18 December 2018 Press Association The Guardian Tobacco companies had claimed that anti-smoking measure would cause prices to drop The introduction of plain cigarette packaging led to an increase in the sale price of leading

18 December 2018 Jan Hoffman The New York Times A Harvard addiction medicine specialist is getting calls from distraught parents around the country. A Stanford psychologist is getting calls from rattled school officials around the

18 December 2018 Susan Scutti CNN (CNN)Prompted by an unprecedented spike in the use of e-cigarettes among teens, the US surgeon general issued a call to action for parents, teachers and health professionals about the

18 December 2018 Compelo Staff Writer  Compelo In a groundbreaking step for tobacco control, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority has adopted plain packaging on tobacco products. Image: Saudi Arabia is set to implement plain

5 December 2018 Daily Sabah Turkey officially introduced plain packaging for tobacco products yesterday, the next step in its fight against smoking. Starting next year, all cigarettes will be sold in packaging without logos and

17 December 2018Jessica GlenzaThe Guardian Research shows 1.3 million more teens vaped in 2018 over last year, however cigarette smoking fell to its lowest level since 1975 A survey has found an “alarming” rise in

9 December 2018 Kelly Crowe CBC New data suggests teen smoking rates in Canada are also rising As he tallied his latest data on vaping rates among Canadian teens, University of Waterloo Prof. David Hammond

5 December 2018 Kathleen Chaykowski Forbes If Marlboro -maker Altria takes a stake in Juul, it wouldn’t be the first time the founders of a company that’s sought to bill itself as a tool for eliminating cigarettes

December 2018 Editorial The Lancet Tobacco smoking cessation represents one of the most successful public health initiatives in the world, with smoking prevalence at its lowest during the past decade according to recent WHO estimates. However,

28 November 2018 European Lung Foundation The more often adolescents say they have seen adverts for e-cigarettes, the more often they use both e-cigarettes and smoke tobacco cigarettes, according to a study published in ERJ Open

21 November 2018 Ananya Mandal, MD News Medical Life Science A team of researchers from University of Queensland have found that tobacco use is associated with an increased risk of psychotic disorders including schizophrenia. The

20 November 2018 Global News Health advocates presented on Tuesday the types of e-cigarette ads that Health Canada allows, and questioned why lifestyle ad restrictions on tobacco aren’t the same for vaping products, which are

20 November 2018 Laurent Huber and Chris Bostic The Hill The FDA recently announced its intention to ban menthol flavoring in cigarettes. Commissioner Scott Gottlieb should be commended for this initiative and those of us working in

16 November 2018 Jan Hoffman The New York Times E-cigarettes may help tobacco smokers quit. But the alluring devices can swiftly induce a nicotine habit in teenagers who never smoked. This is the tale of

15 November 2018 U.S. Food and Drugs Administration As a physician who cared for hospitalized cancer patients, I saw first-hand the devastation that smoking-related diseases had wrought on the lives of patients and their families,

15 November 2018 U.S. Food and Drugs Administration Sharp rise in e-cigarette use results in uptick in overall tobacco product use; prompts new, forceful steps by FDA to firmly confront and reverse youth epidemic Today,

9 November 2018: Sheila Kaplan New York Times In a landmark move bound to further shake the tobacco industry, the Food and Drug Administration plans to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes next week as

15 November 2018 European Respiratory Journal Abstract There is a marked increase in the development and use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or electronic cigarettes (ECIGs). This statement covers electronic cigarettes (ECIGs), defined as

8 November 2018: By Laurie McGinley Source: Washington Post The Food and Drug Administration, alarmed by a huge increase in vaping among minors, is expected to impose severe restrictions on the sale of e-cigarette products

4 November 2018: By TCRN Staff Source: The Costa Rica News Tests Performed, at the Time, Were Not Aware of the Abnormalities A patient suffering from cystic fibrosis developed cancer shortly after receiving a lung

30 October 2018: By Carolyn Crist Source: Reuters (Reuters Health) – Health policy debates around electronic cigarettes should consider the health of the environment, too, according to an editorial in the American Journal of Public

29 October 2018: By Carly Weeks Source: The Globe and Mail The federal government is considering making Canada the first country to require individual cigarettes to carry health warning labels as part of an effort

29 October 2018: By Melissa Davey Source: The Guardian The tobacco industry is “reverting to tricks and stunts” in a bid to attract young smokers, the head of the Public Health Association of Australia has

27 October 2018: By: Carolyn Crist Source: Reuters (Reuters Health) – Very few smokers know there is sugar added to cigarettes, a new survey suggests. In addition, very few realize that added sugar increases toxins

This document relates to item POL 5 of the Agenda for the 334th Session of the ILO GB in Geneva (25 October – 8 November 2018) and corresponds to the document GB.334/POL/5 Integrated strategy to

29 October 2018: By Simon Bradley Source: Swissinfo The Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) is once again facing pressure to review its relationship with the tobacco industry. This week the United Nations agency is set

23 October 2018: By Alex Matthews-King Source: Independent World’s largest tobacco firm continues to market cigarettes abroad while running quitting campaign in UK, say charities One of the world’s largest cigarette and tobacco companies has been accused of “staggering

23 October 2018: By University of Otago Source: Scienmag New research from ASPIRE2025, a University of Otago research theme, challenges tobacco companies’ claims they are working towards a smokefree world and suggests young people are

10 October 2018: By Lucas Laursen Source: Fortune Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam proposed on Wednesday banning electronic cigarettes throughout the territory, the Financial Times reports. Bloomberg, meanwhile, reports that the ban is a fait accompli. The e-cig

2 October 2018: By Hayley Dunning, Joanna Wilson Source: Phys.org A new report shows that the six trillion cigarettes produced yearly impact the environment through climate change, water and land use, and toxicity. The devastating impact of the tobacco