9 May 2023 By Yasmin Amir, wbur In a unanimous ruling, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court awarded a Newton woman $37 million in a lawsuit against Philip Morris USA, the country’s biggest cigarette manufacturer. The

More provinces move to ban flavoured vapes as feds stall on regulation By Adam Miller, CBC Health Canada is “missing in action” on the regulation of e-cigarette flavours in Canada as youth vaping rates rise,

27 April 2023 By Michelle Jongenelis, The Conversation It’s 2013. The Harlem Shake is on the radio and e-cigarettes are becoming a thing. A group of researchers convene to discuss these and other products containing

1 May 2023 By Natassia Chrysanthos, The Sydney Morning Herald Disposable vapes used by more than a million Australians will be banned under a major crackdown on vaping that aims to rid convenience store shelves of

20 April 2023 By Daniel J. Rowe, CTV News Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube announced his intention to table regulation that would prohibit the sale of flavoured vaping products (other than tobacco flavour) in the coming

18 April 2023 By Elizabeth Short, MedPage Today Teens who used e-cigarettes early were more likely to become frequent smokers Use of electronic cigarettes during early adolescence appeared to increase the odds of any smoking

18 April 2023 By Mansur Shaheen, Daily Mail America’s vaping epidemic is being fueled by people who never smoked before — in more evidence the devices are not simply a cessation aid. The number of

18 April 2023 By Imogen West-Knights, The Guardian Scientists don’t know yet whether vapes are harmful. So why is the UK government handing them out? I am vaping right now. It’s a watermelon one, which

23 March 2023 By Natassia Chrysanthos, The Sydney Morning Herald Vape flavours would be banned, individual product packages would have warning labels and importers would need a permit to bring vapes into the country under a

17 March 2023 By Raouf Alebshehy, Karin Silver, Phil Chamberlain, Frontiers Background: The tobacco epidemic is global and addressing it requires global collaboration. International and national policies have been adopted to promote collaboration for tobacco control,

March 2023 By Action On Smoking & Health (ASH) The UN Environmental Assembly adopted a resolution to begin negotiations on an international, legally-binding treaty to end plastic pollution. These treaty negotiations offer an important opportunity

5 March 2023 By Simon Chapman, The Conversation When smoking first became popular we were told it was healthy, it was heavily marketed (including to young people) as being cool, and the time it took

25 February 2023 Khmer Times Visitors to Kampot will be enable to enjoy activities without being assailed by tobacco smoke after the Mayor of Kampot confirmed that the city has been designated as a no-smoking

27 February 2023 By Brendan Pierson, Reuters Feb 27 – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Los Angeles County’s ban on sales of flavored tobacco products brought by R.J.

24 February 2023 By Rayane Tamer, SBS News Australia is working to combat what experts describe as a “vaping epidemic” as more studies reveal the dangerous impacts of e-cigarettes on young teenagers. But health experts

21 February 2023 England’s chief medical officer voices concern as vape use among 11- to 17-year-olds doubles in two years By Andrew Gregory, The Guardian Children are being targeted with “appalling” and “utterly unacceptable” marketing

14 February 2023 By Kimberly Drake, healthnews Keck School of Medicine researchers discover that the levels of epithelial cell DNA damage in people who vape are virtually the same as people who smoke traditional cigarettes. E-cigarettes,

15 February 2023 ASH Scotland ASA, the UK’s advertising regulator, has upheld a complaint from health charity ASH Scotland in its ruling about medicinal smoking cessation advertising claims by vaping company VPZ regarding its e-cigarette

10 February 2023 By Daily Tribune A consumer group on Wednesday urged the government to focus its efforts on curbing the smuggling of agricultural food staples rather than use rising food prices as a pretext

5 February 2023 By Grant Phillips and Kelsey Walling, West Hawaii Today Hawaii could be the first state in the nation to ban the sale and possession of tobacco for an entire generation. Senate Bill

24 January 2023 By MBditor, Macau News Agency The findings of a study showed Monday that 93 percent of Pakistanis agreed that the sale of cigarettes should be banned. A Gallup and Gilani Pakistan survey

10 January 2023 By Alyx Gorman, The Guardian Three years in, the long-term consequences of my habit started to show. But my health wasn’t the main reason for stopping n the back of a rideshare,

18 January 2023 By Natassia Chrysanthos, The Sydney Morning Herald The Australian College of GPs has warned Australia risks trading one public health disaster for another as “big tobacco” morphs its strategies to hook a

15 December 2022 By Matthew Chapman , Fin Johnston, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Five disposable vapes are being thrown away every second by young people in the US despite the devices containing reusable lithium-ion

15 December 2022 By Stanton Glantz E-cigarette advocates Michael Pesko, Michael Cummings, Clifford Douglas, Jonathan Foulds, Thomas Miller, Nancy Rigotti, and Kenneth E. Warner recently published an editorial “United States public health officials need to correct e-cigarette health misinformation” criticizing the

12 December 2022 By Stefan Sykes, CNBC The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid from the tobacco industry to block a California ban on flavored tobacco products. The ban, or Proposition 31, was overwhelmingly

10 December 2022 The proposed deal would resolve thousands of lawsuits in multidistrict litigation based in Northern California. By Christina Jewett, The New York Times Juul Labs has agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle more

13 December 2022 The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age By Tess McClure, The Guardian New Zealand has introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop

9 December 2022 By Judith Mackay, China Daily Dec 10 is Human Rights Day, which this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The 1948 Declaration was one of

2 December 2022 By Melissa Davey, MSN Australia’s health minister, Mark Butler, was just weeks into the job when he realised the extent of the growing public health disaster that is youth e-cigarette use. “We’re

30 November 2022 By Natassia Chrysanthos, The Sydney Morning Herald Each cigarette sold in Australia would be printed with messages such as “smoking kills” or manufactured in ugly colours under a federal government plan to

13 November 2022 World Health Organization Footballs won’t be the only things kicked in Qatar at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. Tobacco and e-cigarettes will also be kicked out of Doha’s eight stadiums, ensuring

15 November 2022 By Judith Mackay, ChinaDaily A bold new strategy has emerged with countries declaring an “endgame” on tobacco, similar to the triumphant winning series of moves of the same name in a game

October 2022 Cancer Council Australia More and more young Australians are using e-cigarettes. These are harmful to health and can cause nicotine addiction, poisoning, seizures, burns and lung injury. The long-term harms are not yet

Inside the international fight to eliminate commercial tobacco sales 28 October 2022 Interview by Brian W. Simpson, Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Tobacco is a unique legal consumer product: It’s the only one that kills half

7 November 2022 By Tim Dornin, Perth now The South Australian government is rolling out a new plan to reduce vaping among school students with more than $2 million in funding for preventative education campaigns

4 November 2022 Dutch News There are ‘strong indications’ that filter cigarettes on sale in the Netherlands may break official EU limits on tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide, judges in Rotterdam said on Friday. The

3 November 2022 The Standard Hong Kong could ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking in the city, said Henry Tong Sau-chai, chairman of the

26 October 2022 By INÉS SÁNCHEZ-MANJAVACAS CASTAÑO, EL PAIS Experts warn that vaping devices and water pipes serve as a gateway to nicotine addiction and are linked to disease, but vaping continues to appeal to

11 October 2022 By Alicia Bridges, ABC The WA Cancer Council is leading a push to “revitalise tobacco control” in the state by proposing halving the number of retailers and banning the sale of e-cigarettes,

2 October 2022 By Jackson Graham, The Age An advertising campaign that calls out tobacco companies for their tactics to make products seem less harmful launches on Sunday amid fears that smoking is on the

16 September 2022 By Jen Christensen, CNN First, there were flavored cigarettes that tasted like chocolate or grape. Then came the e-cigarettes in flavors like cotton candy or gummy bear. Now, there are flavored gummies made with nicotine, and the

9 September 2022 By Rebecca Perl, The Washington Post Rebecca Perl, a former health and science reporter for The Post, is vice president of partnerships and initiatives for Vital Strategies, a partner in the tobacco industry

21 September 2022 By Patricio V. Marquez Background There exists much skepticism about the tobacco industry’s claim that it wants to “unsmoke the world”.[1]  Tobacco control proponents question how much the tobacco industry’s “transition narrative” should