30 November 2016: Court of appeal rejects companies’ latest attempt to block rules that will force them to remove distinctive branding from packs. The latest attempt by tobacco companies to prevent the introduction of mandatory

24 November 2016: A middle-aged cigarette smoker who has smoked for decades is two to three times more likely to die early than someone similar who has never smoked. Tobacco smoking is well known to

23 November 2016: SHANGHAI – A national regulation banning smoking in public places is expected to be issued by the end of this year, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The regulation

21 November 2016: Source:University of North Carolina Health Care System Summary:The impact of non-menthol tobacco flavors on consumers’ perceptions and tobacco use behaviors have been demonstrated in the results of a systematic review of 40

20 November 2016: India aims to reduce tobacco consumption by 30 per cent in the next three years, but it also needs to quickly promote the farming of alternate crops by tobacco growers, whose exports

7 November 2016: Nestlé and World Bank request to be removed from website Nestlé and the World Bank are among a number of organisations to demand that a controversial lobby group for tobacco companies stops claiming links

3 November 2016: Smoking leaves an “archaeological record” of the hundreds of DNA mutations it causes, scientists have discovered. Having sequenced thousands of tumour genomes, they found a 20-a-day smoker would rack up an average

3 November 2016: By Duff Wilson and Aditya Kalra | NEW YORK/NEW DELHI The leadership of a World Health Organization (WHO) treaty on tobacco control has proposed barring delegates with ties to state-owned tobacco firms

25 October 2016: Tobacco is arguably one of the most significant threats to public health we have ever faced. Since the publication of the landmark U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Tobacco and Health in 1964,

2 November 2016: With a week left for inter-governmental meeting of global tobacco treaty (formally called World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or WHO FCTC), 115 civil society organisations from India and several

27 October 2016: India’s $11 billion tobacco industry has urged the government to take a softer line on tobacco control efforts when it hosts a WHO conference in New Delhi next month, but officials say

24 October 2016: Smoking-related cancer death rates are highest in the South About a third of cancer deaths in American men and a quarter in women are linked to cigarette smoking, finds a new study

25 October 2016: Correspondence toProfessor Ruth E Malone, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; ruth.malone@ucsf.edu Accepted 5 October 2016 During the past month alone,

21 October 2016: British American Tobacco said on Friday that it has offered to buy U.S. tobacco giant Reynolds American in a $47 billion deal that would create the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company.

16 October 2016: Japan’s health minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki said that the government will step up measures against passive smoking while seeking public understanding ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, reported NHK on Friday.

11 October 2016 Research finds absence of parents in first seven years increases risk of offspring taking up smoking or alcohol Parental absence increases the risk of children drinking and smoking before they become teenagers,

4 October 2016 A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal District Court in Boston aims to force the Food and Drug Administration to require cigarette packages to display images starkly depicting what tobacco can do to

5 September 2016 There was a time when public health discussions on tobacco were an extraordinarily open process. Government officials met a wide range of people and listened to their concerns and ideas as they

22 September 2016 Even when you quit smoking, residue left behind by cigarette smoke can stick to surfaces, penetrate deep into materials in your home and settle in for a long time to come. A

19 September 2016 To the Editor: Re “Tobacco Lobby Tries to Shield E-Cigarettes” (front page, Sept. 3): Not much has changed. Decades ago tobacco companies were advertising that cigarettes were good for you and that

19 September 2016 Roswell Park Cancer Institute scientists report that several flavorings added to electronic cigarettes impact the toxicity of the devices and that, among the tested flavors, strawberry was the most toxic. The researchers

13 September 2016 (Reuters Health) – Breathing secondhand smoke during childhood can lead to long-term breathing and health problems and a shorter life expectancy, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

8 September 2016 Plain packaging for tobacco is on the way after legislation passed its final hurdle tonight. Associate Health Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga took a large cigarette packet prop into Parliament’s debating chamber to

A health ministry panel on Wednesday called for a ban on smoking indoors in public spaces, including restaurants. In a report, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry linked passive smoking to a range of deadly

30 August 2016 ‘E-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes but they are not harmless,’ says professor Vaping damages key blood vessels in the heart in a similar way to normal cigarettes, heart experts have said.

24 August 2016 Plain packaging for cigarettes has taken another step towards reality, despite suggestions that manufacturers and retailers should be given more time to sell their old stock. The Smoke-free Environments (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Amendment

18 August 2016 (CNN)Shane Todd, a familiar face in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s well-known “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign, has died from complications of cancer. He was 49. Todd started smoking cigarettes

12 August 2016 NEW DELHI: Crop diversification programme has been extended to 10 states to encourage tobacco growing farmers to shift to alternative crops, the Lok Sabha was informed today. Production of flue cured virginia

13 August 2016 ‘The tobacco industry is complicit in illegal trade. Smuggling is one of its business strategies.’ – WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan, once stated at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.According

6 August 2016 Three years ago, the government of Togo, which has a gross domestic product of $4 billion, received a letter from Philip Morris International, a tobacco giant which last year earned revenues of

When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act 1 August 2016 On Good

2 August 2016 A compliment from the World Health Organisation chief to President Xi Jinping for quitting smoking will be a boost to tobacco control efforts, now in a vital phase ahead of a national

1 August 2016 Statutory “smoking kills” warnings on screen every time an actor lights up in a movie may be done away with, if the government accepts recommendations from a committee headed by director Shyam

21 July 2016 The Constitutional Court for the fourth time ruled that a smoking ban at all restaurants is constitutional, court and health officials said Thursday, rejecting arguments that it violates individuals’ rights to property

12 July 2016 Tobacco causes six million deaths a year, and big tobacco was recently described in a British high court judgment as an industry “which facilitates and furthers, quite deliberately, a health epidemic”. But

Latest updates 16 July 2016 http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/07/16/celebrating-common-sense The World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruled in favor of Uruguay on Friday in a suit filed by Philip Morris International seeking compensation for

6 July 2016 North Korea, one of the last bastions of free, unhindered smoking, a country where just about every adult male can and does light up almost anywhere he pleases and where leader Kim Jong-un is

6 July 2016 The European Union is ending the anti-smuggling agreement it has with tobacco multinational Philip Morris International (PMI), sources confirmed to EUobserver. The European Commission has decided not to renew the deal after

26 June 2016 Many of them begin cultivation of sesame, green gram, and green manure crops in a big way There seems to be no end to the woes of tobacco growers in Prakasam district

5 July 2016 A new study led by University of Otago researchers suggests that July 2012 legislation that removed all point-of-sale tobacco displays from shops selling cigarettes has helped reduce smoking among New Zealand school

30 June 2016 To tax, or not to tax? That is the question that preoccupied a thought-provoking panel at a recent World Bank Group conference on “Winning the Tax Wars” – along with such pragmatic

1 July 2016 New Zealand Government Hon Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga Associate Minister of Health 30 June 2016 Media Statement Standardised tobacco packaging a step closer Associate Health Minister, Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga says the government has

8 June 2016 Globally health advocates have been pressing their governments to raise tobacco taxes to reduce tobacco consumption, especially among young people. Tobacco industry also has argued that tobacco taxes need to be kept

14 June 2016 The government decided on Tuesday to mandate tobacco companies to place graphic images showing the harmful effects of smoking on the upper part of a cigarette packet starting from December. A revised

The amount of tobacco sold in China fell last year for the first time in more than 20 years, as a government health drive and rise in excise taxes began to take effect. China has long bucked the

7 June 2016 A US lobby group has released a volley of attack ads targeting Australia’s plain packaging laws complete with a dubious Australian accent and copious use of permanent markers that have left policy advisers and

30 May 2016 OTTAWA – A legal showdown appears to be looming as the federal government moves ahead with plans for plain packaging of tobacco products. Health Minister Jane Philpott is set to make an

  The use of shocking images on cigarette packaging has been introduced in Australia. (Globedia) Raising taxes and changing the set of gory pictures on cigarette packs are among the steps that will soon be

31 May 2016 For 2016’s World No Tobacco Day, celebrated today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) are calling on countries to get ready