The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

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…

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

Screening for oral cancer, raids against smoking in public planned

The WHO has consistently advised against vaping

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

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

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

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

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

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.