The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

The "epidemic" of adolescent vaping seems to be fading fast, and vaping is replacing smoking among adults, a harm-reducing trend that regulators seem determined to discourage.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California’s third-largest city banished flavored tobacco products from store shelves this summer, joining scores of other cities and counties in the state in a public health push to reduce nicotine addiction among youths and young adults.

The City of Sydney will consider becoming the first Australian jurisdiction to ban fossil fuel advertising on council-run properties and infrastructure, citing health and environmental reasons.

On the first floor of the Press Club of India, in the corridor outside the conference room, a group of photojournalists were smoking cigarettes on Friday afternoon. “These men are stuck in a world that has long passed,” said one of them, carefully balancing a filter and tobacco on a…

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An estimated 4.5tn tobacco filters are littered each year and many end up in oceans with deadly consequences

One person was arrested for the cultivation of cannabis

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

A study found that adolescents who use e-cigarettes are over three times more likely to use cannabis than those who don’t. "E-cigarette use among cannabis-naive adolescents was associated with an increased likelihood of both self-reported past 12-month and past 30-day cannabis use 1 year later," stated the study.