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 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...
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...
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...
Dutch parliamentarians want e-cigarettes and vapes to have a boring and uniform appearance. According to the D66, which will submit this proposal in parliament on Wednesday, this will make vaping less attractive to teenagers. A majority in parliament supports the plan, RTL Nieuws reports. “Young people now think it’s cool to have such an accessory with glitter...
Winchester and Chandler's Ford MP, Steve Brine, has called on the Government to create a smoke-free fund paid for by the tobacco industry, to boost new public health budgets. The Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee spoke during Parliamentary questions to the Health Department where he welcomed the appointment of Professor Deanfield as the...
Local non-governmental organisation the Development Organisation of the Rural Poor on Wednesday urged the government to pass the draft amendment of tobacco control act and ban all types of electronic cigarettes at the earliest to make the country tobacco-free by 2040. "Tobacco companies are spreading rumours against the amendment of tobacco control act. We request...
Research has shown that the proportion of children vaping is on the rise, with many being influenced by social media sites including TikTok. Putting vapes in plain packaging reduces their appeal to children and could even stop them taking up vaping in the first place, a major new study has found. Researchers discovered that removing bright colours,...
The European anti-tobacco lobby has urged the international community to help earthquake-hit Turkey avoid a €1.8 million donation from Phillip Morris International (PMI) highlighting “hidden” lobbying activities. For its part, PMI rejected the accusations saying it’s money to help people in need. On 15 February, PMI offered €1.8 million “to support immediate humanitarian aid and...
Over two million high school students use e-cigarettes, the CDC reports. Dorian Fuhrman, co-founder of PAVe, says no amount of nicotine is safe. "JUUL created the youth vaping epidemic," Fuhrman said. Vaping has taken hold of children and teens, over two million of whom partake in the habit, according to the Centers for Disease...
