Smokers in the Philippines are to be warned that cigarette ingredients are used in embalming fluid. But perhaps it’s never too early to start the preservation process.Read More
‘Health advocates’ in the Philippines are seemingly impatient to have people locked up because of non-compliance with new tobacco-product health-warning regulations.Read More
In declaring that the state should protect its citizens against tobacco as it does against crimes such as theft, the President of Turkey seems to have ignored the fact that tobacco use is legal.Read More
A question has been raised about the possible de facto ban on the export of cigarettes from the EU to countries that won’t accept track-and-trace coding on tobacco packaging.Read More
The trouble with public consultations on tobacco issues is that non-users are in the majority and they are happy to impose on users the tyranny of the majority.Read More
In Japan, it is still possible for a cigarette manufacturer to issue special-edition packs; and what could be more uplifting in the Japanese spring than the sight of cherry blossom?Read More
In part, the EU defends its tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system by citing obligations to a World Health Organization protocol that has received very little support. Read More
The battle over India’s 85 percent tobacco-products health-warnings, which has been fought on and off since 2014, is due to be resumed in March.Read More
The threat of bigger graphic health warnings in South Korea is not causing too much concern among cigarette manufacturers. Smokers might feel otherwise.Read More
It will be interesting to see what will be depicted if, as suggested, South Korea requires ‘stronger pictorial warnings’ on heat-not-burn products.Read More
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