United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he wants Congress to raise the minimum age for tobacco products, including vaping devices, to 21 from 18...Addiction - Policy & Law
United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he will introduce national legislation to raise the minimum age for people buying tobacco products...
December 5th, 2018Government’s proposed anti-tobacco bill lacks any scientific assessment as an underlying principle of legislation, argues Tim Cohen, senior editor of Business Day. In...
November 5th, 2018
Government prohibiting of e-cigarettes and other products that offer healthier alternatives to smoking, is not a reasonable position, said Philip Morris...
Big Tobacco companies moved to counter the hard line taken by a World Health Organization global tobacco control treaty, including its decision that new ‘vaping’...
November 5th, 2018
The World Health Organization conference on smoking control has not endorsed industry arguments that new smokeless nicotine products are better alternatives to...
September 3rd, 2018Following a cacophony of criticism of South Africa’s Tobacco Bill, supporters the legislation are having their say. An article in Daily Maverick outlines a campaign by...
Psychologists are increasingly likening the behavioural patterns seen in eating disorders to those commonly identified with substance addiction, blogs the South African...Weekly Roundup
The world’s biggest cigarette company has come under fire for offering “smoke-free” tobacco products to staff at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) staff to...
March 21st, 2018Nowhere are the battle lines between public health authorities and Big Tobacco, Big Food and Big Soda sharper than in South Africa and on the African continent, argue...
