Vaping, smoking now the same under Wilmette regulations
Wilmette joined a growing number of communities this week when it banned the sale of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, to teens under the age of 18, and prohibited people from using the devices...
View ArticleThe WHO’s secret tobacco tax
Moscow — After booting the public from its meetings on Monday, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) tobacco control convention ramped up its assault on transparency on Tuesday when the press was also...
View ArticleHow smoking damages the BRAIN
Smokers have a thinner outer brain layer than non-smokers, scientists have discovered. Past studies have long linked smoking to heightened risk of cancer and lung disease. And research has shown...
View ArticleUK Passes Law to Require Plain Cigarette Packaging in England
The UK’s House of Lords has approved a bill to standardise cigarette packaging in England from May 2016, making it the third and most populous country to introduce such a law. However, tobacco...
View ArticleJTI turns to Freshfields in latest tobacco challenge to plain cigarette...
The latest firm to win work challenging the UK government’s decision to introduce plain cigarette packaging, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Tom Snelling has launched High Court litigation on behalf...
View ArticleSitting for long periods linked to an increased risk of heart disease
Sitting for long periods of time is just as dangerous for your health as smoking, according to researchers at Queen’s University Belfast. Researchers from the university found prolonged sitting was...
View ArticleTobacco giants launch UK plain packaging challenge
Four of the world’s largest tobacco companies will on Thursday mount a court challenge over UK government plans to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco,...
View ArticleJapan Tobacco Demonstrates Great Results
Japan Tobacco increased probably the most in a year in Tokyo trading after raising its year-end dividend and net revenue outlook, stating it sees carried on revenue increase in the mid-to-long term....
View ArticleTobacco price rises help Imperial Brands
Tobacco group Imperial Brands blamed disruption in Iraq and Syria for a drop in the amount of tobacco it sold in the final three months of 2015. But the company, which dropped the word “tobacco” from...
View ArticleTen myths about smoking that will not die
Across 40 years I’ve come to recognise many factoid-driven myths about smoking that just won’t die. If I asked for a dollar each time I had to refute these statements, I’d have accumulated a small...
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