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Young People Are Using Cigarettes To Quit Vapes, Threatening Decades Of Anti-Tobacco Progress

Vape addiction rates among young people have risen so much that cigarette smoking rates are starting to lift too, after decades of declines.

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2 Tobacco Stocks to Buy Before It Gets Too Late

Amid increased health awareness, tobacco usage has declined over the past years. However, the U.S. is still a leading tobacco producer. And given the introduction of new products and sticky consumer habits, the industry should witness stable growth. Thus, investors should buy fundamentally strong tobacco stocks Altria Group (MO) and…

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More South Africans are smoking - higher taxes and stronger law enforcement are needed

Tobacco use imposes a significant health and economic burden on countries. Research estimates that the cost of smoking in South Africa amounted to 0.97% of the country’s GDP in 2016. These costs are likely to have increased as a result of the observed rise in smoking prevalence over the past…

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Two shops forced to shut as raids discover huge stash of illegal tobacco and vapes

There has been a series of recent busts at shops in Newport selling banned cigarettes, tobacco, and vapes

Wales Online

Does cannabis smoke cause more lung damage than tobacco smoke? A researcher reveals the truth

Flaws in a viral study have some calling for its retraction.

Inverse

Why Big Tobacco's attempts to rehabilitate its image are so dangerous

In September, Imperial Tobacco Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of British American Tobacco, was awarded the “Great Place to Work” certification, one of the leading authorities on workplace culture.

The Conversation

‘Lives are at stake’: Australia returns to the nicotine frontline with vaping reform

A decade since world-first plain packaging reforms, there is a new threat: the alarming rate of children using e-cigarettes

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Investment giant fined for greenwashing

Vanguard Australia has been fined for describing investments in cigarette and tobacco sales in potentially misleading ways.

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Banning menthol cigarettes and more health warnings are only the start. Australia could look to NZ for how to do tobacco control

This week’s announcement of a raft of new tobacco control measures – including banning menthol products and proposing health warnings on individual cigarettes – are important and welcome.

The Conversation

2 Defensive Stocks That Deserve a Spot in Your Portfolio

Despite widespread market volatility and rising recession fears, the U.S. economy looks resilient enough to deal with a palpable growth slowdown. Experts are hopeful that the broader markets will stabilize eventually. Amid this, investors should exercise caution and consider adding fundamentally strong and defensive stocks Altria Group (MO) and Sprouts…

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Australia to consider tougher nicotine e-cigarette import and labelling laws to tackle teen vaping

Therapeutic Goods Administration to investigate border control laws, as well as tougher regulation of nicotine products and advertising

The Guardian - AU

Australian government to crack down on nicotine e-cigarettes as rates of teen vaping skyrocket

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds many children do not know they are consuming highly addictive nicotine in vapes until it is too late

The Guardian - AU

Couple shocked to discover mystery white powder and tobacco in Poundland gift box

Callum Baker and Lily Tomlinson called the police when they found the unknown substances inside the Poundland gift boxes they were planning to use for Christmas

Daily Mirror

The chase is on: Regulators are slowly cracking down on vapes aimed at teens

The advent of vaping revived nicotine addiction among young people after a dramatic decline. The FDA seems poised to at last yank some products aimed at teens from the market. Will it work?

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Couple find mystery powder and tobacco inside Poundland gift box

Callum Baker and Lily Tomlinson had bought the boxes to put presents in but got a surprise when they opened one of them

Dublin Live

Dublin Airport dog search finds 150kg chewing tobacco while two arrested with 4kg cannabis at ferry port

Revenue have said that investigations into both cases are ongoing

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In MP, Girls Take Up Smoking Cigarettes Aged 7, Says Survey Report

Around 2.10 per cent of girls smoke cigarettes and 2.40 per cent of boys consume cigarettes in Madhya Pradesh

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Tobacco companies can’t sponsor Australian arts. Should fossil fuel giants be banned too?

A 350.org database shows almost two dozen arts organisations are still reliant on mining money – but some are hunting for alternatives

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One common habit many football fans have no idea is banned in Qatar

A UK company has vowed to pay the £2,200 fines if fans get caught

Reason

There's No Constitutional Right To Own a Pit Bull, Federal Court Says

Plus: A flawed study on marijuana risks, the collapsing publishing-house merger, and more...

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Choose your adventure in Belize: Islands and ruins, caves and cuisine

On my first full day in Belize, I climbed Mayan pyramids under a blazing sun — and then cooled off by swimming to a mountain cascade.

Salon

Cal still fighting on football death

More evidence that when elite universities get hooked on football, they start behaving like tobacco companies

Zenger

Deadly Disease More Common In Cannabis Smokers Than Cigarette Smokers

Smoking a marijuana joint deposits four times more particulates in the lung than an average tobacco cigarette, says a researcher.

ABC News

CCTV footage captures men stealing $50,000 worth of cigarettes from Paget store

The grainy CCTV shows three, hooded men scrambling through a closed shopping centre in the early hours of the morning, raiding a tobacco shop and carrying off $50,000 of cigarettes away in a blanket.

Reason

California's Vaping Flavor Ban Could Be Lethal

By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.

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