Child labour persists after tenancy system abolition
Africa-Press – Malawi. Despite the abolition of the tenancy system last year, large numbers of children continue working on tobacco farms, and remain out of school. The revelations of continued child labour in estates are contained in a joint labour report prepared by the Malawi Police Service, Ministry of Labour and some civil society organisations. Malawi...
Cigarettes to cost Quebecers more as province raises tax on tobacco products
Smokers will pay more for their cigarettes in Quebec starting Thursday. For the first time since 2014, Quebec is announcing an increase in the tax on tobacco products. According to a Ministry of Finance bulletin issued Wednesday, the increase amounts to $8 for a carton of 200 cigarettes. In more detail, the specific tax on...
‘War on cigarette butts’: Coalition plan to reduce pollution ‘never existed’, Tanya Plibersek says
Up to 9bn plastic cigarette butts are discarded and washed into waterways in Australia each year Almost two years after the former Coalition government declared “war on cigarette butts”, a promised taskforce to reduce pollution still hasn’t been established. Up to 9bn plastic cigarette butts are discarded and washed into waterways in Australia each year, according to the...
Biden will take aim at smoking in his State of the Union speech as part of his ‘cancer moonshot’
Biden will announce plans to accelerate progress in lowering cancer deaths. That includes the biggest, preventable driver of them: smoking. His plans come as conservatives decry a "war on cigarettes" and Tucker Carlson claims nicotine "frees your mind." During his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden will kindly thank...
Petition launched to make the EU tobacco -free by 2030
A campaign is underway to gather 9,165 Irish signatures as part of an EU-wide petition to make Europe tobacco-free by 2030. It aims to create the first tobacco-free generation to 'save' them from "falling into tobacco addiction, to act against related environmental dangers and against smoking". One million signatures are required from seven EU States in...
The European Union Bans Flavoured Heated Tobacco Products
The European Commission (EC) had proposed a ban on the sales of flavoured heated tobacco products due to a reported increase in use, and the directive came into force on November 23rd 2022. The ban was proposed in response to a reported 10% rise in the sales volumes of heated tobacco products in several EU...
Amended tobacco control act will safeguard passive smokers
The proposed amendment of the "Tobacco Control Act" will upgrade it to international standards as it will be possible to safeguard the passive smokers from the tobacco exposures as well as make the youngsters refrain from smoking, economists and members of the parliament have said. They also noted that "Smart Bangladesh" will be the country...
It’s time to enact the Tobacco Control Bill
2023 marks exactly 15 years since Zambia became party to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC) and made an undertaking to come up with a domestic comprehensive tobacco control law. In the absence of a tobacco control legislation, Zambia will continue losing around 8,000 lives annually due to tobacco consumption, according...
How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer
This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities...
Most US adults support banning sales of all tobacco products, CDC survey says
More than half of US adults support ending the sale of all tobacco products, according to a new study led by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and nearly two-thirds said they support banning menthol cigarette sales. The poll, published Thursday in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease, included 6,455 US adults surveyed...
