The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

Growing use of e-cigarettes could lead to increase in tobacco smoking, Australia's peak medical body warns

Australia's peak body for medical research warns the growing use of e-cigarettes could lead to an increase in smoking rates.

ABC News · Jun 23, 2022

The FDA Is Set To Ban Juul Products In U.S.: What Companies Could Benefit?

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Benzinga · Jun 22, 2022

The FDA knows nicotine is addictive. It wants to regulate it for the first time

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to set a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and some other tobacco products, looking to make them less addictive and wean smokers off the habit.

WEKU · Jun 22, 2022

How About Reducing Nicotine Levels In Tobacco Products? Biden Administration Working On Cap Plan

The Biden administration signaled that it would develop a proposed rule to establish a maximum nicotine level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products. The goal of the potential rule would be to reduce youth use, addiction, and death. 

Benzinga · Jun 22, 2022

Biden administration wants to take the buzz out of cigarettes

The Biden administration wants to make the tobacco industry cut back the amount of addictive nicotine allowed in cigarettes sold in the U.S.

Axios · Jun 22, 2022

Commentary: If Biden gives up on climate, it’s a white flag for the planet

At one point in Al Gore’s seminal 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” the former vice president laments that his tobacco-farming parents didn’t stop raising tobacco until after their beloved daughter Nancy died of lung cancer in Tennessee.

Tribune News Service · Jun 22, 2022

Biden administration to call for nicotine reductions in cigarettes (OLD)

New policy forcing tobacco companies to cut nicotine to nonaddictive amounts could upend industry

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2022

Crime groups using illicit tobacco to finance drug trade and terrorism as cigarette prices soar, says Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

The soaring cost of cigarettes in Australia is presenting lucrative opportunities for organised crime groups, who are turning to illicit tobacco as a "low-risk and high-reward" trade.

ABC News · Jun 17, 2022

Fossil fuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says UN head in blistering attack

António Guterres compares climate inaction to tobacco firms dismissing links between smoking and cancer

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2022

Glasgow gift card ban on tobacco not possible, officials admit

More than 84,000 households will be sent the £105 gift card later this year - and officials admitted it would be possible for the money to be spent on cigarettes and alcohol.

Glasgow Live · Jun 17, 2022