The World Health Organization’s admission that nine out of 10 people around the world breathe polluted, toxic air could be interpreted as a mea culpa, but we are all to blame.Read More
Although India needs money to mitigate the effects of disasters, natural and otherwise, it is not clear why it is felt that tobacco users should bear all the burden of providing that money.Read More
While aspects of this story seem questionable, the principle is not. With leaf prices held down for 20 years, the only way to make money out of tobacco is to be a manufacturer.Read More
South Australia’s Parliament looks set to shift the state beyond the black stump in relation to vaping – back to the good old days when men were men and smoked combustible cigarettes.Read More
The full version of the story below explains why figures on the 'epidemic' of young people vaping in the US are being bandied about even though those figures have not been published.Read More
Japan's tobacco growers are due next year to be paid a per-kg price for leaf higher than they were paid last year but less than they were paid in 2015.Read More
It seems like a no-brainer. If a country has the conditions and farmers to grow the types and styles of tobacco in demand domestically and, perhaps overseas, why wouldn't it grow it?Read More
Tobacco control activists should stop putting it about that smokers are addicted to the point where they cannot quit without help. It isn't true; as this story indicates.Read More
Early tobacco plantings in Zimbabwe are down on those of last season as farmers keep a weather eye out for rain.Read More
Like its predecessors, the 2019 Global Forum on Nicotine is due to be held in June at the Marriott Hotel, Warsaw, Poland.Read More
