The World Health Organization believes that pollution causes the deaths of seven million people annually; so why is there no Framework Convention on Pollution Control?Read More
A story from South Korea says that the flavor of a smoker's cigarette of choice is influential in her trying it for the first time. This seems odd since there are no flavour descriptors on Read More
One way to fill up your jails is to incarcerate people for minor offences, such as dropping litter, including cigarette butts.Read More
A public-places tobacco-smoking ban in the Swiss canton of Ticino will cover many administrative, recreational and transport facilities.Read More
A tobacco- and nicotine-product control-bill is being put out for public comment in South Africa.Read More
The average price paid to Zimbabwe’s growers for flue-cured tobacco seems to be hovering around where it was at about the same stage of the previous two seasons. Read More
One of the lessons to come out of the JUUL affair is that it can be dangerous to come up with a product that is ‘too’ successful.Read More
If civic-minded citizens didn’t pay for the costs created by those less civic-minded, there would be no tobacco-company donations to the EU for fighting the illegal trade – and no prisons.Read More
In New Zealand, the amount of litter is measured by the number of rugby pitches it would cover – an image that most locals would find too distressing to contemplate.Read More
Does the fact that inhaling polluted air can be likened to smoking present governments with a way of raising excise revenue from those who claim to be non-smokers?Read More
