The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

Scottish football clubs slammed by experts for sponsorship deals with vaping firms

Top-flights clubs such as Rangers and Celtic previously signed contracts with VPZ, with health charities saying the deals contradict the efforts made to reduce nicotine use among youngsters.

Daily Record · Oct 3, 2022

FDA Admits Vaping Is Safer Than Smoking But Refuses To Correct the Record

Don’t expect a change in course, despite the long-awaited admission.

Reason · Sep 29, 2022

North Lanarkshire Council issue penalties to shops who sold vaping products to under 18s

The shops that received Fixed Penalty Notices were in Wishaw, Motherwell, Allanton and Moodiesburn.

Daily Record · Sep 29, 2022

Cuba in the dark after hurricane knocks out power grid

Cuba remains in the dark after Hurricane Ian knocked out the power grid and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip as a major storm

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2022

Vapes and illegal tobacco seized from southern Queensland stores in police raids after tip-offs

Members of the public reported the suspected illegal sale of the nicotine products to police and Queensland Health amid a state-wide crackdown.

ABC News · Sep 28, 2022

Budget 2023: Price of cigarettes goes up again by 50c in unwelcome news for smokers

The new duty will bring the price of a pack of 20 up to €15.50, while other tobacco products will also see a pro-rata increase

Dublin Live · Sep 27, 2022

Christmas in Bristol: All the big festive events happening in 2022

Keeping up to date with everthing going on in Bristol this Christmas may be difficult - but we’ve got you covered

Bristol Post · Sep 27, 2022

Proposition 31 will let California voters decide whether they want to ban flavored tobacco products

California voters will decide in November whether to uphold or block a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2020 that banned the sale of certain flavored tobacco products, an effort by anti-tobacco advocates to stop a youth vaping crisis and weaken the industry's influence in the state.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 25, 2022

Four shops in same area shut down for selling illegal cigarettes

The shops span half a mile along a single thoroughfare

Wales Online · Sep 17, 2022

When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay

The cigarette industry had its Erin Brockovich moment in the nineties. How has it managed to survive?

The Walrus · Sep 16, 2022