ASH Submission to WHO on NCDs
In our letter to the World Health Organization's consultation on the future Global Action Plan on NCDs (2013-2020), ASH outlines key provisions member states and WHO should consider for successful strengthenin...
“A Billion Deaths From Tobacco, A Key Obstacle to Global Development”
This is just one of many key statements made at last week's conference on "Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century" held at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. To see some of the powerful me...
C. Everett Koop, Former Surgeon General and Tobacco Control Pioneer, dies at 96
C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general of the United States who started the government’s public discussion of AIDS during the Reagan administration, died Feb. 25 at his home in Hanover, N.H. He was 96.
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The Center for Tobacco Products Releases Potential Tobacco Product Violations Report Form
The new form released by the Center for Tobacco Products allows the public to report potential violations of the Tobacco Control Act and its related regulations. In turn this enables the FDA to monitor complian...
Should ALL smokers over 40 be tested for cancer?
When Maria Arundel’s husband, Richard, died from lung cancer aged 65, she felt her life was over.
Yet she also credits his death as the reason she was saved from succumbing to the same disease.
With no sc...
New Zealand Follows Australia on Tobacco Plain Packs
New Zealand is set to become the first country after Australia to pass a law requiring that cigarettes be sold in plain packages.
New Zealand’s government will bring in the legislation to cut the appeal of s...
Russia moves toward strict smoking limits
MOSCOW — The lower house of parliament, which has raised the blood pressure of many Russians by banning American adoptions and restricting opposition rights, attempted to lower it to healthy levels Friday as la...
CDC: U.S. not on track to reach 2020 goal for lower smoking rates
When it comes to preventable deaths and disease, smoking is still a top killer in the U.S., says a new report from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention.
Approximately 443,000 people die from cigaret...
Senate bill targets tax credits for tobacco advertising
Legislation Includes Provisions to Fight Chronic Disease, Encourage Healthier Communities, Schools and Workplaces, and Improve Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities
Legislation introduced today by Se...
States need to do more to reduce smoking, study says
Many U.S. state governments use little of the money they receive each year from tobacco taxes or legal settlements with cigarette makers to fund programs that could help people kick the habit or prevent them fr...
Toward tobacco-free troops
The Pentagon recently announced a force reduction of 80,000 troops. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the new military will need to be “smaller, leaner, but agile and flexible.”
But how do we achieve an ag...
Another super fund drops its investment in tobacco
The superannuation fund for health and community services workers has become the latest fund to dump its investments in tobacco.
HESTA chief executive Anne-Marie Corboy confirmed the fund had started removin...
Study calls for tobacco profits cap
An extra £500 million a year could be raised in tobacco tax if an independent regulatory agency to cap cigarette manufacturers' profits was set up, academics have said.
The creation of an 'Ofsmoke' agency to...
New anti-tobacco ads for African American market unveiled
California Department of Public Health director and state health officer Dr. Ron Chapman has unveiled new ethnic-market advertisements that will continue to educate Californians on the harmful effects of tobacc...
NGOs tell Barroso to remove tobacco lobbyist from ethics commission
Philip Morris lobbyist reappointed to committee that should regulate lobbies and revolving doors policy for commissioners.
European transparency groups Corporate European Observatory, Lobby Control, and Corp...
Regulate cigarette manufacturers like water companies – report
The UK government could raise at least £500m a year by capping the amount of profit tobacco companies can make from cigarettes, academics have said.
They are calling for state regulation similar to that used t...
South Africa: Govt Signs WHO Treaty Against Tobacco Smuggling
Last week South Africa became the first country to sign a new international treaty aimed at combating tobacco smuggling.
Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, signed the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trad...
US Should Embrace Efforts to Combat Smoking Overseas
SMOKING MAY be the world’s greatest global health threat. It kills nearly 6 million people a year around the world — more than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. The United States has done an admirable jo...
Meningitis Linked To Smoking While Pregnant
Women who smoke while pregnant can triple the chances of their child succumbing to a major cause of meningitis, according to new research.
Several studies have already suggested a link between passive smokin...
US Study Finds Smoking May Worsen a Hangover
Study: You'll Likely Feel Worse After Drinking if You've Been Smoking, Too
For smokers, it may seem only natural to light up while imbibing at this month's holiday parties. But a new report published in the...
New Zealand’s Proposed Plain Packaging
The discussion about New Zealand’s proposed law on plain packaging for cigarettes and other tobacco products, largely followed the earlier debates on Australia’s law.
New Zealand notified its intention to i...
Medical Students from Across the Globe Unite to Demand Special Treatment of Tobacco in Trade Agreements
A letter from TPP Medical Student Association Presidents including the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) went out to TPP negotiators asking for access to the negotiating text as...
Court Blocks FDA Tobacco Warning Labels Appeal
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected the government’s request for the full court to hear a case on the Food and Drug Administration’s graphic tobacco warning labels, setting up a potential Supreme Cour...
Treaty Shopping: How Philip-Morris Cherry-Picked Worst Case BITs
Tobacco giant, Philip-Morris, has recently bought actions under investor-State arbitration mechanisms in investment treaties to challenge laws limiting (in Uruguay) or prohibiting (in Australia) the display o...
As Nations Try to Snuff Out Smoking, Cigarette Makers Use Trade Treaties to Fire Up Legal Challenges
Andriy Skipalskyi was feeling proud, even triumphant, when he arrived last March at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore.
Ukraine’s parliament had just voted to approve a public smoking ban...
