International Updates Archive

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

15 January 2021 The Journal: Several accusations have been made by the former anti-smoking foundation’s director of social media. A FORMER EMPLOYEE has filed a suit against the Smoke-Free World foundation, charging she was fired

6 January, 2021 King’s College London, Science Daily: Smoking is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms and smokers are more likely to attend hospital than non-smokers, a study has found. The study published

23 November 2020 Jane E. Brody, The New York Times: “We’re stepping backward from all the advances we’ve made in tobacco control,” one investigator said. While most of us strive to avoid inhaling aerosols that

18 November 2020 Amanda Meade, The Guardian: Anti-smoking campaigners say the tobacco giant is using the online articles to try to weaken bans on nicotine e-cigarettes and e-juice A series of Philip Morris-sponsored articles about

17 November 2020 Kit R. Roane, Jeffery DelViscio, Kelso Harper, Scientific American: To understand the battle over e-cigarettes, one must look to history—and big tobacco The on-screen type appears in boldface and capital letters. “WHAT

12 November 2020 Boston School of Medicine, Medical Express: A growing body of evidence points to the health risks of using e-cigarettes (or “vaping”). But because e-cigarettes are marketed as a less harmful alternative to

9 November 2020 Children’s national hospital, Eurekalert: Cigarette smoking remains a leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. And while adolescent cigarette smoking has declined over the past several decades, e-cigarette

28 October 2020 American Heart Association, Medical Express: Current smokers faced nearly three times the risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease compared with people who never smoked, with the risk being higher among those

26 October 2020 John P A Ioannidis and Prabhat Jha, The Lancet Global Health: Tobacco use is the top modifiable global health problem, but the global tobacco market grows 3% annually. Most anti-tobacco measures to

16 October 2020 American Physiological Society, Medical Express: A new review suggests “heat-not-burn” tobacco devices may threaten cardiovascular health. The review is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. Heat-not-burn

23 October 2020 Rachel Clun, The Sydney Morning Herald: Almost 170,000 Australians died last year, with four of the top five causes of death linked to smoking, while dementia-related deaths increased as the population ages.

16 October 2020 Alex Ward and Victoria Allan, Daily Mail: E-cigarettes may not provide a safer alternative to smoking during pregnancy, warn researchers. Nicotine in any form could negatively affect a baby’s development, said the psychologists.

12 October 2020 Padraig Hoare, Irish Examiner : Teenagers are between three and five times more likely to start smoking if they have used electronic cigarettes previously, a new report has claimed. The Health Research Board (HRB),

7 October 2020 Sarah Whitten, CNBC: Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Van Halen, has died after a long battle with throat cancer. He was 65. Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang, confirmed

29 September 2020 Melissa Davey, The Guardian: Every one of 25 existing studies examined found people who use e-cigarettes are more likely to take up ‘combustible’ smoking Using e-cigarettes triples the chance of a non-smoker

MuChun Tsai, Min Kwang Byun, John Shin, and Laura E. Crotty Alexander, The Physiological Society: Abstract E‐cigarette aerosols are exceedingly different from conventional tobacco smoke, containing dozens of chemicals not found in cigarette smoke. It

28 September 2020 Melissa Davey, The Guardian: Former staff reveal covert tactics that ‘undermine plain packaging legislation’ Major tobacco companies are giving Australian retailers cash payments and taking staff on all-expenses-paid international trips, including to

30 September Rachel Clun, The Sydney Morning Herold: People who had never smoked but who use e-cigarettes are three times more likely to start regular smoking. Research commissioned by the Federal Department of Health has

18 September 2020 Carly Cassella, Science Alert: Emissions from e-cigarettes are not harmless and calling them vapour is purposefully misleading, scientists argue. While the puffs from e-cigs aren’t exactly smoke, the term ‘vapour’ often brings

Dr Michelle Jongenelis, University of Melbourne; Christina Watts, Cancer Council New South Wales and Maurice Swanson, Australian Council on Smoking and Health, The University of Melbourne: E-cigarettes have clearly made their way into Australian society.

17 September 2020 American Heart Association, Science Daily: Summary: Researchers in Finland found a link between smoking and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a type of bleeding stroke, in a study of more than 16,000 pairs of

17 September 2020 Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc., News Medical: The vast majority of Twitter users who vape with JUUL e-cigarettes are not using the devices to stop smoking or to improve their health, according

13 September 2020 Stephen Adams, New Zealand Harald: Vaping increases the risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests. In another hammer blow to the vaping industry, scientists from a group of American universities,

4 September 2020 Katherine J. Wu, New York Times: Researchers are starting to home in on the ways in which the use of e-cigarettes raises the chances of catching the virus, and suffering its worst

2 September 2020 Yadira Galindo, UC San Diego Health: E-cigarettes are now the most popular product used for smoking cessation in the United States, ahead of all U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved cessation aids

28 August 2020 Michael Nedelman and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN: A free roll of toilet paper with your vape? How about hand sanitizer Vaping companies — long criticized for marketing that appealed to kids and implied

27 August 2020 University of Bath, Medical Express: The introduction of cigarette-like mentholated ‘cigarillos’ (mini cigars which are leaf-wrapped) to the UK is helping big tobacco companies to bypass strict public health measures intended to