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28Mar

USA: Retailers will soon need a licence to sell cigarettes. But more is needed to control the illegal trade

BY: Coral Gartner, Hollie Bendotti, Kylie Morphett, Michaela Estelle Okninski Dubbed “the tobacco wars”, the illegal trade in untaxed tobacco products is reportedly booming in Australia. Some people see buying these cheap cigarettes as a way to save money. But as this week’s ABC Four Corners reported, it comes at great cost to the community, with fire-bombings, murder, serious crimes funded by...

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14Feb

Availability of Flavor Capsule Cigarettes at Points of Sale in Quito, Ecuador: Attila Pohlmann, PhD

About the Event Hosted by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC), the monthly Innovations in Tobacco Control lecture series welcomes key researchers and experts to share ideas, present their work, and spark discussion. Presented via Zoom, this month’s event welcomes Attila Pohlmann, PhD, for a lecture entitled “Availability of Flavor Capsule Cigarettes at Points...

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30Jan

USA: Grandmother raises alarm over vaping at middle school

BY: JT Fetch SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (WRGB) — A concerned grandmother is speaking out after she says her granddaughter, an eighth grader at Oneida Middle School, returned home with a vaping device she told her she purchased from "the drug dealer" at school. The woman, identified only as Stacy, expressed her worries not only about the potential dangers of...

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30Jan

USA: FDA proposes reducing nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels

BY: Lara Bryn NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a groundbreaking plan to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to a minimally or nonaddictive level. Experts are comparing the potential impact of this change to the lifesaving introduction of seatbelts in cars. Dr. Andrew Hyland, director of the New York...

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30Jan

USA: Nicotine Pouches: A Public Health Puzzle With Missing Pieces

BY: Francis Allan L. Angelo Oral nicotine pouches (ONPs), sleek, discreet, and often flavored, are rapidly gaining traction in the US market, especially among young adults. Marketed as “tobacco-free,” these pouches deliver nicotine via the oral mucosa, bypassing the combustion associated with traditional tobacco products like cigarettes. While preliminary research suggests that ONPs may present fewer health...

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30Jan

U.S. could soon require graphic warnings on cigarette packages, but doctors still face uphill battle

BY: Caroline Foreback BALTIMORE -- The United States is one step closer to joining 138 countries where graphic warnings on cigarette packages are required, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. However, with the wide range of nicotine products on the market, and alarming trends of e-cigarette use in young people, public...

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30Jan

USA: Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking

ODP and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are sponsoring the Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking to enhance the evidence base of interventions to help individuals from populations experiencing health disparities quit smoking, with a specific emphasis on menthol cigarettes. This Challenge encourages submissions from local and...

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28May

Report: Tobacco industry uses manipulative practices to hook young people on addictive products

GENEVA — The World Health Organization and STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog, warn the tobacco industry is using a variety of manipulative tactics to hook a new generation of young people into becoming users of their addictive, toxic tobacco and nicotine products for life. “The terrible truth is that eight million people every year...

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15Dec

Smoking decline stalls since Covid as more young people take up the habit – study

A decades-long decline in smoking in England has nearly ground to a halt since the pandemic, a study suggests. The rate of decline slowed from 5.2% in the years before the pandemic to just 0.3% between April 2020 and August 2022, according to the research. The lead researcher said it was likely more young people had taken...

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15Dec

E-cigarettes: France backs bill to ban disposable vapes

The French parliament has voted unanimously to ban single-use e-cigarettes, known locally as "puffs", amid health and environmental concerns. It still needs backing from France's Senate and clearance from the EU Commission before it becomes law. If both approve the bill, the government said it hopes the ban will be effective by September 2024. Several other countries...

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