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Tips and tricks to quit smoking - from setting quit date to changing diet

Everyone knows smoking is bad for your health. In honour of World No Tobacco Day, here are the best expert tips and tricks to quit smoking and improve your health as well as lifestyle

Daily Mirror

World No Tobacco Day: WHO raises alarm on tobacco industry environmental impact, human health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Qld plans tougher smoking, tobacco laws

A proposed crackdown on tobacco in Queensland could lead to a smoking ban at outdoor markets and the licensing of vape sales.

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Tobacco's environmental threat

Tobacco kills our environment, not just people. Tobacco causes over 8 million deaths every year globally and 81,000 in Thailand. Simultaneously, each year, tobacco destroys a vast landmass roughly the size of 44,000 Suan Luang Rama IX parks, the largest green park in Bangkok, causes massive deforestation and pollutes our…

Bangkok Post

Aiming to be smoke free

Today marks World No Tobacco Day and this year marks a special milestone for the anti-tobacco movement in Thailand.

Bangkok Post

Of lungs, trees and sin stocks

Large corporate enterprises themselves are making efforts to reduce the harm of tobacco consumption

The Hindu

Focus on World No Tobacco Day

Screening for oral cancer, raids against smoking in public planned

The Hindu

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E-liquid firm sends vaping message to WHO for World No Tobacco Day

The WHO has consistently advised against vaping

Wales Online

Legal age for buying cigarettes in UK could be upped to 21 - or even 25

A Government plan to make the UK smoke-free by 2030 will be published this year

Wales Online

Indonesia’s young people are taking on Big Tobacco

The tobacco industry profits from child labour and sky-high youth smoking rates in Indonesia. Young people are fighting back.

360info

African countries need tighter controls to curb growing tobacco use

Average global smoking rates have fallen over the past 12 years with the proportion of people aged 15 or older who smoke declining from 22.6% in 2007 to 19.6% in 2019.

The Conversation

Special Report: Tobacco's toxic reach

The environmental impacts of the tobacco industry, and its attempts to divert attention from them, are only beginning to be realised.

360info

Big Tobacco’s toxic waste dodge

The waste tobacco products create is an increasingly recognised environmental hazard. Environmental laws might be used to tackle it.

360info

Don't be fooled by Big Tobacco's sustainability awards

Tobacco companies want you to know they are great corporate citizens. But it’s all a fig leaf for their environmental offences.

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Malaysia makes case for smoking end game

Malaysia’s plan to phase out tobacco will cost the country tax revenue, but economics suggest it will benefit the country in the long run.

360info

Bhutan banned smoking and it didn’t go so well

The world watched as Bhutan enforced a blanket ban on tobacco: could the solution be as effective as it was simple?

The Conversation

Cigarette ads were banned decades ago. Let's do the same for fossil fuels

There is no reasonable disagreement that humanity needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. People might argue over how large a reduction is necessary or about the best ways to achieve it, but almost everyone agrees it has to be done.

The Hindu

Cancer hospital’s initiative to help tobacco farmers grow alternative crops

More than 15,000 high-grade saplings and over 8,000 saplings of lucrative seasonal fruits had already been supplied to the farmers free of cost under the project

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The Hindu

Jharkhand to get WHO award for tobacco control

National Tobacco Control Programme was launched in Jharkhand in 2012 when the tobacco prevalence rate in the State was 51.1 per cent

Birmingham Post

How old Imperial Tobacco factory in Nottingham is being transformed into 426,000 sq ft business park

Factory opened in 1970s and at its peak employed more than 7,000 people and produced billions of cigarettes a year

Nottingham Post

Work begins on site of old Imperial Tobacco factory after 'years of uncertainty'

A £50m deal has been secured

Tribune News Service

State ballot initiatives on health focus on abortion, drugs

WASHINGTON — It’s still early, but so far at least eight of the estimated 90 state initiatives that voters will decide on this year are related to health, including four amendments — the most ever in one year — related to abortion access.

The Guardian - UK

Big Tobacco is killing the planet with plastics. No smokescreen should be allowed to hide that

Greenwashing ploys cannot mask the pollution wreaked both by cigarettes and new nicotine products

Roll Call

State ballot initiatives on health focus on abortion, drugs - Roll Call

Initiatives that have made state ballots so far include proposals on abortion, Medicaid expansion, drugs and tobacco.

The Hindu

Farmers plead with Centre not to double cess on tobacco

It will make our produce uncompetitive in the global market, they say

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