The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

Peter Angelos built an empire of Orioles baseball, law and Baltimore real estate. Will a family feud break up the kingdom?

BALTIMORE — It is an empire built piece by piece, but reaching expansively across the Baltimore area and beyond — through real estate that includes a downtown landmark and a renowned horse farm, to an aggressive law firm that won billions of dollars for workers harmed by asbestos and smokers…

Tribune News Service · Jul 1, 2022

The FDA's War on Juul Will Kill People

Bureaucrats say they want to save lives. But they're moving to block a tool that is proven to help smokers quit entirely.

Reason · Jun 30, 2022

Editorial: Drastically reducing nicotine levels will save a lot of lives

Nicotine kills. Oh, not directly, for the most part. It’s just so addictive that cigarette smokers find it nearly impossible to quit a product that subtracts years off their lives, causes cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, strokes and heart disease, along with worsening Type 2 diabetes. In 2018, more than…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 30, 2022

Flavoured vapes could be banned as part of EU plan to fight cancer as e-cigarette use surges

Proposed restrictions would only cover products delivering heated tobacco

The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2022

Man charged following discovery of over one million bootleg cigarettes at West Lothian warehouse

The illegal cigarettes were discovered at a warehouse in Whitburn in April

Daily Record · Jun 29, 2022

Glasgow customs raid seizes 2million fake cigarettes worth £795,000

Officers raided a 'business unit' in Glasgow's South Side on Monday and found eight pallets containing 'illicit cigarettes' thought to be worth £795,000 in lost duty.

Glasgow Live · Jun 29, 2022

HMRC seize over two million 'illicit' cigarettes in Glasgow raid as two charged

Two men have been charged with excise duty fraud after around 2.2 million cigarettes were discovered at a business unit in the city's southside on Monday, June 27.

Daily Record · Jun 29, 2022

Altria is Still a Buy After FDA Orders Pulling JUUL Products Off the Market

Shares of Tobacco giant Altria (MO), a significant stakeholder of Juul Labs, slid last week on the news of the FDA preparing to order removing e-cigarette maker Juul’s products from the U.S. market. However, MO rebounded the following day as investors did not foresee any significant impact of this development…

StockNews.com · Jun 27, 2022

Editorial: Smoke and mirrors: On the FDA’s nicotine and vaping rulings

Count us fans of the Food and Drug Administration’s historic push to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, which, in concert with a proposed ban on menthol-flavored cancer sticks, promises to liberate millions of Americans from deadly addiction. Cigarette smoking is responsible for nearly a half-million deaths in America per year,…

Tribune News Service · Jun 27, 2022

Shopkeeper in court after illegal haul found stashed in basement

Sardar Mohammed, who runs Timisoara on Ashton Road, was hauled before the courts

Manchester Evening News · Jun 27, 2022