A head teacher at a school in Australia allows her students to smoke during breaks because that’s what it takes to get them to stay at school and continue their studies.Read More
Nicotine-delivering electronic cigarettes could offer significant health benefits to people with mental illnesses in Australia - if they weren’t banned.Read More
One of the most interesting questions to arise from the latest WHO tobacco report concerns why, after four and a half years, has its illegal-trade protocol not entered into force.Read More
In Greece, where a relentless pursuit of austerity has imposed financial hardships on ordinary people, it was only to be expected that the illegal trade in cigarettes would increase.Read More
The UK government’s new Tobacco Control Plan for England has been welcomed by at least one vapers’ organization, but it has not gone down well with a smokers’ group. Read More
Discrimination that would be unthinkable against certain groups of people is visited on smokers daily.Read More
When people break the law and are sent to prison the punishment they suffer is their loss of freedom. To then not allow them to smoke smacks of vindictiveness rather than punishment.Read More
An Australian parliamentary committee is hearing from experts about how the health risks of electronic cigarettes and combustible cigarettes compare, and how such products should be regulated.Read More
The idea that tobacco companies should become involved in hospitals was always going to run into opposition. What next? Tobacco schools?Read More
In Japan, tobacco smoking is a habit indulged by nearly 40 percent of men in their 30s, but by less than two percent of women 80 years of age or older.Read More
