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...
Kenya: Revenue authority proposes higher tobacco stamp duties.
In June 2022, the President assented to the Finance Bill 2022 thereby activating various proposals to Kenya’s fiscal governance regimes. Among the changes effected were the increased excise duty rates for various tobacco and nicotine products such as electronic cigarettes and the liquid nicotine therein, cartridges for use in electronic cigarettes, cigarettes with/without filters,...
CSO’s Consult on Tobacco Endgame in Ghana
A Consultative Forum for Civil Society Organizations was held on 8th February 2023 in Accra, where Mr. Issah Ali, Executive Director of Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) highlighted the concept of the Tobacco Endgame. He shed light on its effective strategies, global best practices, the opportunities available to Ghana and other areas of reflection. Mr....
Pro-tobacco lobbyists circle Australian government’s proposed vaping reforms
As the TGA considers at least 4,000 submissions, tobacco companies appear to be heightening lobbying efforts An international pro-vaping group, supported by British American Tobacco, has hired an Australian lobbyist amid proposed government reforms that could see tightened access to nicotine vaping products. In February, Michael Kauter – a former deputy director of the Nationals and...
UK health expert raises alarm at vaping ‘epidemic’ among teenagers
One of the UK’s leading respiratory doctors has raised the alarm about the exploding popularity of vaping among teenagers, saying that without urgent regulation a generation could end up with long-term addictions and lung damage. Dr Mike McKean, vice-president of policy for the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health, said vaping was becoming an...
ATCA 2022 Media Award: The Winners
In March 2022, the ATCA Tobacco Control Media Award was launched in a virtual come together that brought together media professionals and other tobacco control stakeholders to exchange ideas and experiences on the vital role that journalists play in tobacco control. The award, a yearly initiative organized to motivate journalists to generate compelling tobacco control media...
