Doctors, nurses and therapists in acute hospitals in Glasgow, Scotland, are routinely identifying patients and their families who are "at risk of poverty”.Read More
The US’ Truth Initiative says that the consequences of the tobacco industry’s targeting vulnerable groups are horrendous, ‘killing more than 540,000 people each year’.Read More
In announcing a dividend increase yesterday, Altria said it reflected its intention ‘to return a large amount of cash to shareholders in the form of dividends’.Read More
Raising by more than 370 percent the excise tax on heat-not-burn sticks would be unreasonable only if the South Korean government’s goal was harm reduction.Read More
Andre Calantzopoulos, the chief executive of Philip Morris International, says that recent proposals by the US Food and Drug Administration invite dialogue rather than litigation.Read More
The US Food and Drug Administration is being urged to ban the sales of menthol cigarettes, a move that would have a profound effect on the US market.Read More
It is difficult to understand how Malawi’s average grower price for leaf tobacco this season could be described as ‘good’, but that is how it has been described.Read More
‘Victims’ of second-hand tobacco-smoke in Yokohama Japan are taking aim at ‘firefly’ smokers, even though they don’t make an easy target.Read More
The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been declared a tobacco-free zone, but it is not clear exactly what that means.Read More
Researchers have called for better definitions of and more studies into asthma and COPD, each of which can often be treated or prevented with affordable interventions.Read More
