The Irish government has been accused of double standards in its fight against tobacco after it emerged that the state has multimillion-euro investments in the tobacco industry, according to a story in the Irish Examiner. Read More
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March 9, 2015
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made yet another attempt to fight tobacco smoking by saying that a social landscape should be created to put pressure on smokers, according to a story in Read More
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Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) in England are denying medical treatments to high numbers of people who are obese or smokers, according to a story by David Millett for GP Magazine. Eighty three percent of CCGs Read More
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March 9, 2015
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has expressed its strong opposition to a bill that would exempt ‘traditional large and premium cigars’ from regulation by the Food and Drug Administration under the Family Smoking Read More
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March 6, 2015
Two new United States surveys have found that 15-21 million U.S. adults used e-cigarettes regularly in 2013-2014; 3.2-4.3 million e-cigarette users no longer smoked cigarettes on a regular basis; and approximately 90 percent of regular Read More
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March 6, 2015
Robert Califf, a cardiologist and researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, was appointed as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco on March 2. Read More
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March 6, 2015
A study examining the vapor released from Blu Ecigs’ and Skycig’s e-cigarettes in comparison to the smoke emitted by Philip Morris USA’s Marlboro Gold and Imperial Tobacco’s Lambert & Butler cigarettes found Read More
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March 6, 2015
A high court judge has ruled that the U.K public-places smoking ban must be enforced in state prisons despite the possibility of unrest this could provoke in jails throughout England and Wales. According to Read More
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March 6, 2015
Four members have resigned from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC), and three new ones have joined. The FDA made the changes to comply with a Read More
Staff Writer
March 6, 2015
A New Zealand public health expert says that evidence from Australia shows that standardized tobacco packaging has worked almost like a vaccine against tobacco use in children and young people. According to a story by Read More
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