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Fears over teen vaping as 18% of 15-year-olds now smoking e-cigarettes

The NHS has promoted e-cigarettes, which people must be 18 or over to buy, as a quitting aid for tobacco - but little is known about their long-term health risks

Daily Mirror

Dublin detector dog sniffs out illegal cigarettes, tobacco, and cash

Officers, with the assistance of detector dog Bill, seized approximately 141kgs of tobacco, over 74,000 cigarettes, and cash

Dublin Live

Thousands of fake cigarettes found in 'hidden compartments'

Police visited several stores after reports of shops selling fake cigarettes to minors

Liverpool Echo

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New anti-smoking legislation at Lanarkshire hospitals welcomed by charity

The Prohibition of Smoking Outside Hospital Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2022, comes into effect today

Daily Record

Nazi scientist Otmar von Verschuer's correspondence with British biologist illuminates corruption of medicine

In the archives of the University of Adelaide is an exchange of letters between an infamous German geneticist and a famed British biologist that reveals much about how Nazi scientists were able to reinvent themselves after the war.

ABC News

Revenue seize concealed cigarettes and tobacco worth €5.5 million at Dublin Port

The discovery was made with the assistance of Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner

Irish Mirror

Dublin Port seizure sees €5.5 million worth of cigarettes and tobacco found

The illegal discovery was destined for an address in Co Meath

Dublin Live

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Editorial: Pot is now more prevalent than cigarettes, but federal law remains outmoded

Consider this for an illustration of just how much society has changed in the past few generations: New data shows that, for the first time ever, more Americans use marijuana than tobacco. It’s positive news from a public health standpoint. Whatever the legitimate concerns about the U.S. becoming a pot-head…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This Tobacco Giant Among 3 High Yielding Stocks That Have Increased Dividend Yields To Over 5%

Companies in the S&P 500 that consecutively raise dividends for over 25 years and 50 years, are known as dividend aristocrats and kings, respectively. When hunting for dividend stocks, it can prove to be beneficial investing in corporations that consecutively raise dividends. Here are three dividend stocks that have raised dividend…

Benzinga

Win or lose, here’s how tobacco companies are reaping millions in California off Prop. 31 fight

Win or lose, tobacco companies are reaping hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to a California proposition that they spent a fraction of that amount to get on this fall’s ballot.

Tribune News Service

Family seeks justice for asbestos-related death of former tobacco scientist

Ivy Dash died in 2020 after a "devastating" decline caused by mesothelioma

Bristol Post

Andhra Pradesh: Tobacco Institute of India director calls for ‘pragmatic’ tax policies

‘Heavy taxes have made India the fourth largest market for illicit cigarettes in the world’

The Hindu

California Lawmakers Are Being Hypocritical About 'Harm Reduction' Policies

The state is prioritizing harm-reduction approaches for drug users. That's great. So why are lawmakers taking a maximalist approach to punishing smokers?

Reason

New Survey Data Cast Further Doubt on the FDA's Opposition to Flavored E-Cigarettes

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.

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Tribune News Service

More communities are giving flavored tobacco the boot. Will California follow?

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.

Tribune News Service

Advocates urge FDA action to ease policing fears in menthol ban

WASHINGTON — Experts and advocates are calling on the Biden administration to do more to avoid potential confrontations between police and racial minorities if the Food and Drug Administration finalizes a ban on menthol cigarettes.

Tribune News Service

On a Connecticut farm, 100 migrant workers spend months living, cooking and harvesting tobacco together

ENFIELD, Connecticut — Gerald Gray wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to prepare his meals for the long day in the fields as one of the 100 Jamaican workers employed by the Jarmoc family on the Jarmoc Farms tobacco fields.

Roll Call

Advocates urge FDA action to ease policing fears in menthol ban - Roll Call

An estimated 85 percent of Black smokers use menthols, according to the FDA, compared with 30 percent of white smokers.

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City of Sydney to consider ban on fossil fuel advertising to fight climate change, pollution

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.

Newslaundry

'Publications now carry government's pictures': Press Club event looks at what ails photojournalism

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…

Liverpool Echo

Penthouse sells for record price near Bramley Moore Stadium site

Take a look inside the penthouse that sold for more than half a million pound

The Guardian - UK

Cigarette butts: how the no 1 most littered objects are choking our coasts

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

Manchester Evening News

Illegal tobacco and cannabis grower arrested in police raids

One person was arrested for the cultivation of cannabis

The Conversation

Cigarette advertising aggressively targets kids in low- and middle-income countries, a new study finds

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

Benzinga

Is Tobacco Vaping Associated With Cannabis Use In Youth? Here's What A New Study Found

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.

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