The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

The cocker spaniels helped find a quarter of a million cigarettes and 1,500 pouches of tobacco worth an estimated £76,000 hidden in shop basements

Despite industry-wide headwinds, the tobacco industry is well-positioned for solid growth in the foreseeable years, thanks to stable demand for tobacco products and the sector’s R&D efforts. Therefore, investors might consider buying cheap fundamentally sound tobacco stocks Japan Tobacco (JAPAY), Imperial Brands (IMBBY), and Vector Group (VGR). Read on….

In Al Jazeera’s investigative series Gold Mafia, merchanting is used to launder money. But what exactly is merchanting?

What Is a Sin Tax?A sin tax describes a type of tax levied on a good, service, or activity that is viewed as harmful to people’s health and well-being. It can also be referred to as a public health tax because governments typically use the revenue generated from the sin…

US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has offered to pay almost $9 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer. If approved by a court in the US state of New Jersey, the payout would be one of largest liability settlements in…

Nottingham City Council will be spending up to £116,355 on the tobacco control enforcement officer

The marketing of legal but harmful products – like alcohol and tobacco – has always targeted our emotional desires. But it has now moved to digital and social media, and this creates a heightened threat to public health because both the products and the platform target our neurological response.

Sales of illegal tobacco are a 'growing problem'

DETROIT — Kassie Weje, a 16-year-old junior at University High School in Ferndale, said her little sister was first exposed to other kids vaping at school when she was in fifth grade.

Prospective Depop shoppers were left divided over a series of bags made from old tobacco packets - but some dubbed the unusual garments 'environmentally friendly'

Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel have recorded ‘popping sounds’ from tomato and tobacco plants using microphones able to capture ultrasonic sounds between 20 and 250 kilohertz.