Monitoring developments
E-cigarette developments, including emerging scientific evidence, will contribute to a report on the Tobacco Products Directive that the EU Commission is required to submit in 2021.Read More
E-cigarette developments, including emerging scientific evidence, will contribute to a report on the Tobacco Products Directive that the EU Commission is required to submit in 2021.Read More
It is surely not okay for a country to manufacture and export a product that is seen to be too unhealthy for use by domestic consumers.Read More
A donation from US-based Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company is aimed in part at helping small sustainable Carolina farms recover from the damage caused by recent hurricanes.Read More
A court ruling upholding an EU ban on the sale of Swedish snus is no doubt legally valid, but the ban flies in the face of logic.Read More
The policy of restricting vaping in the same way as tobacco smoking is restricted stems from lazy thinking and threatens to inflict serious negative health impacts.Read More
How will US states react to a moral challenge issued by Action on Smoking and Health, which has pointed out that the states have the power to ban cigarette sales?Read More
How will China react to a moral challenge issued by the China Youth Daily, which says that the monopoly tobacco system needs to be changed if smoking is to be reduced?Read More
The consensus in the US around the need to save young people from e-cigarettes rings hollow in a world set to bequeath these people a fatally degraded environment.Read More
The chair of the New Nicotine Alliance does well to remind us that an individual's humanity can become obscured by placing her in a pigeon-hole – in this case one marked 'vaper'.Read More
In its rush to quell what it sees as an 'epidemic' of vaping among young people, the US Food and Drug Administration has lost sight of the smoking epidemic that was its original target.Read More