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Bauchi stakeholders canvass tobacco control to end smoking

Stakeholders in Bauchi State in Nigeria have advocated for tobacco control to regulate smoking and consumption of tobacco products in the state. They made the call at a dialogue on tobacco taxation organised by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) on Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Bauchi, the state capital. CISLAC Executive Director, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani,...

Students Ask Nigerian Celebrities to Stop Glamorising Tobacco

A group of 85 students from different schools in Lagos education district one has asked Nigerian celebrities to stop glamorising tobacco usage, stressing that it remained a distraction to them. They agreed that with the increased use of smartphones, other mobile devices, screen time has expanded to include mobile phone and tablet use, in addition...

Qatar World Cup is Hijacked to Advertise Tobacco

Tobacco companies in Indonesia, India and Mexico circumvented international football governing body FIFA’s advertising ban on their products by associating them with the World Cup, according to a new social media analysis by public health group Vital Strategies. Data recorded by Vital Strategies’ digital media monitoring system found 354 instances of tobacco marketing in public posts across Facebook, Instagram...

Juul, Altria face first trial over claims of marketing e-cigarettes to teens

E-cigarette company Juul Labs Inc and its former largest investor, Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc (MO.N), will face their first U.S. trial this week over claims that they created a public nuisance by marketing addictive e-cigarettes to minors. Minnesota seeks to force the companies to pay for measures to remedy the harms of addiction. It says...

No records kept in Scotland for children falling ill from vaping

It comes amid our campaign to outlaw disposable brands of e-cigs which are becoming a growing litter and ­pollution menace. Scottish health chiefs have no idea how many youngsters have needed hospital treatment after falling ill from vaping. While the number of under-18s hospitalised as a result of vaping quadrupled last year in England there are no comparable figures...

Australian teenagers urge government to help them break vaping addiction

Submissions to the TGA include comments from 13-19-year-olds who want restrictions in place to help them with nicotine addiction Teenagers have urged the Australian government to help them break their nicotine addiction, submissions to a major consultation on vaping reforms reveal. A submission to drug regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration from South Australia’s commissioner for children...

Bulgaria to support tobacco growers with 36 mln euro

Bulgaria will provide 70.5 million levs ($38.4 million/36.05 million euro) to its tobacco growers for 2022 under a programme for supporting their transition to an alternative livelihood, State Fund Agriculture said. The financing will be awarded to producers who have grown tobacco during at least one year in the reference period 2007 - 2009, the...

Tobacco-linked organisations and executives fail to declare interests to TGA vaping inquiry

Known links to tobacco multinationals and vaping lobby groups omitted in submissions to federal government consultation on reform. Organisations and executives with known links to big tobacco and vaping companies have failed to declare them in submissions to a major government consultation on vaping reforms aimed at protecting children from nicotine addiction. The submission of the...

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