New Zealand will phase in a near-total tobacco ban from next year. Legislation passed by parliament on Tuesday means that anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products. It will mean the number of people able to buy tobacco will shrink each year. By 2050, for example, 40-year-olds will be...
RJ Reynolds and other firms sought the high court’s intervention to keep the ban from taking effect by 21 December. The supreme court has upheld California’s ban on flavored tobacco products, thwarting an effort by tobacco companies to stop it from being enforced. The ban was passed overwhelmingly by voters in the November midterm elections, but...
The Control of Tobacco Products and Smoking Bill 2022 currently under parliamentary examination marks a dramatic change in Malaysia’s strategy to limit tobacco consumption. Among its provisions are the prohibition of the sale, purchase and possession of cigarettes, tobacco and vaping products as well as a ban on cigarette smoking, tobacco use and vaping...
The illicit cigarette trade continues to thrive in South Africa despite recent enforcement actions, according to a new Ipsos study. According to Ipsos’ latest study, shops nationwide are still flooded with illegal tobacco products more than two years after the unconstitutional tobacco sales ban was imposed by the government as part of their response to the...
More than 3 million US middle and high schoolers – about 11% of those students – reported current tobacco use in 2022, according to a new study from researchers at the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the ninth consecutive year, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco...
A global food crisis is growing fueled by conflict, climate change, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine driving rising prices of food, fuel and fertilizer. Tobacco growing and production lead to long term, global ecological harms and climate change, and plays a crucial role...
Tobacco companies have paid almost £7bn in taxes to the Kremlin since the invasion of Ukraine, despite vowing to pull out of Russia. Analysis by The Telegraph of Russian Treasury figures shows that the Kremlin has received 480bn roubles (£6.8bn) from the tobacco industry in the eight months since Putin launched his war. London-based British American...
Strict new smoking laws for South Africa will soon be tabled before the National Assembly, where the Department of Health wants to tighten its control on where smokers can light up, and better regulate the emerging vaping sector. Broadly, the draft laws cast a wide net to create zero-smoking spaces in public areas while also...
Public Relations Strategist, 7even Interactive, Ese Aluko (left); Market Lead, Ghana and Nigeria for SKY Girls, Alice Railton; Lagos State Commissioner of Education, Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo and General Manager Operations, 7even Interactive for SKY Girls, Adenike Odutola at the official launch of SKY Girls Nigeria, an empowerment movement for teenage girls A Pan African group,...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC) has taken its national campaign and advocacy on tobacco control to Gombe state, thereby calling on the state government to develop policies and legislative frameworks to control tobacco use in the state. According to CISLAC tobacco prevalence has been on the increase in Nigeria and other African countries,...
