International Updates Archive

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

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