Category :News This Week

A machine that pulses deep regions of the brain with magnetic current may help heavy smokers quit their habit, according to a Times of Israel story citing an Israeli study. In the study, which experts Read More

The US Food and Drug Administration is seeking public comments on Swedish Match’s request for its General-branded tobacco products to be certified as less harmful than cigarettes, according to a story by Michael Felberbaum Read More

Tobacco control measures should be excluded from the scope of all chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), according to a report published in the BMJ Publishing Group journal, Tobacco Control. The TPPA, an agreement Read More

The Taiwan Smokers’ Rights Association yesterday accused the New Taipei City government of breaking the law and violating students’ rights with its request that junior- and senior-high schools conduct tobacco tests on suspected smokers, according Read More

Reynolds American Inc. is due to host a webcast of the presentation that will be made by its CEO and president, Susan M. Cameron, at the Barclays Back-To-School Consumer Conference in Boston, from about 09.45 hours Read More

The Ghana-based Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) has joined public health groups the world over to call on the tobacco industry to end its exploitation of tobacco farmers, according to a SpyGhana.com story. The Read More

The Indonesian government has been accused of failing to protect young people from cigarettes, according to an en.tempo.co story. The CEO of the children’s organization, Lentera Anak Indonesia, Hery Chariansyah, was quoted Read More

A number of anti-smoking advocates yesterday urged the Taiwan government to regulate electronic cigarettes as a tobacco product rather than as a controlled drug, so as to address the ‘rampant illegal sales’ of these devices, Read More

Japan Tobacco Inc. is donating ¥2.0 million and about 14,000 bottles of water from its beverage business to help the survivors of last week’s landslide in the northern part of Hiroshima, Japan. In announcing the donations, Read More

A health advocacy group in the Philippines is thinking of asking the government to shorten the period that tobacco companies have been granted before they have to include graphic health warnings on cigarette packs, according Read More