Imperial Tobacco awarded for “social and economic contribution to Polish...
Seems this business award committee forgot about all of Imperial’s sick, dying and dead customers. I wonder if the local community contributions included addicting children to tobacco and breaking up...
View ArticleGood news despite the profit increase: analysis of BAT 2012 preliminary results
Pascal Diethelm OxyRomandie, Switzerland On 28 February 2013, British American Tobacco (BAT) published their preliminary results for 2012 and issued an accompanying news release in which the chairman...
View ArticleThe marketing of e-cigarettes: a UK snapshot
Marisa de Andrade & Gerard Hastings Institute for Social Marketing; University of Stirling marisa.deandrade1@stir.ac.uk Editor’s note: The United Kingdom’s health regulator, the Medicines and...
View Article“If it’s not cancer, I’ll give up smoking”
"I promise you, I will do everything I can to make sure you did not die in vain. I will tell the world your story, and the story of other people killed by tobacco. I will challenge the tobacco...
View ArticleUK: Government condemned for bowing to tobacco industry over plain packs
Author credit: Marita Hefler and Stan Shatenstein On 2 May, the Sun newspaper reported that the UK government had decided to abandon cigarette plain packaging legislation. An announcement about the...
View ArticleJapan Society for Tobacco Control warns against appointing ex tobacco...
Manabu Sakuta President of the Japan Society for Tobacco Control According to an article published on 13 May in Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Japan’s equivalent of the Wall Street Journal ) the former...
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Timor-Leste: Asia’s newest country in Marlboro’s sights as company targets...
Mary Assunta Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance Marlboro Black Menthol billboard in Timor-Leste, 2013Photo: George Darroch At its annual shareholder meeting in New York on 8 May, Philip Morris...
View ArticleTobacco industry-commissioned report: large decline in EU consumption, almost...
Konstantin Krasovsky Alcohol and Drug Information Center (ADIC-Ukraine), Kiev, Ukraine krasovskyk@gmail.com On April 17, 2013 Philip Morris International (PMI) issued a press release, based on an...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia: New report on child labour in the tobacco industry
A new report has been released by The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) entitled Child labour in tobacco cultivation in the ASEAN Region. Launched in Jakarta, Indonesia on 12 June in...
View ArticleThailand: tobacco industry takes legal action to block public health measures
In a story familiar to Health Ministries who act in accordance with the requirements of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to protect the health of their citizens, the Thai Ministry of Health...
View ArticleWorld No Tobacco Day: a wrap up of reports and pictures from around the world
World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is held every year on 31 May. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners everywhere highlight the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocate for effective...
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Thai youth ask the tobacco industry to withdraw lawsuit against new pictorial...
Update: On 1 August, 140 youth and students held a protest rally at the World Trade Centre in Bangkok, location of the Philip Morris International offices, to show support for 85% pictorial warnings,...
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I was a late 90′s cigarette girl
We hope our readers enjoy this piece which offers an insiders view of what it was like to be a promo girl for big tobacco in the 1990′s. Granted this type of promotion is now largely banned in...
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Reports from the Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco...
Editor’s note: The first edition of the ASEAN Tobacco Control Atlas was launched to coincide with the conference. Click here to read additional reporting by SEATCA and download the report. Dr Marewa...
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Stopping tobacco industry interference: using The Union Toolkit on FCTC...
Anne Jones, Technical Advisor The Union http://www.theunion.org/ (Formerly International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease) 12-14 August Jaipur, India: Stopping tobacco industry...
View ArticleChina’s investment in Africa: consequences for tobacco control?
Sue Lawrence, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Recently, China’s economic growth recently may have fallen below its expected 6% rate, but it is more of dip than an indication of...
View ArticleWaiting out the legal challenges to plain packaging – playing into the...
Editor’s note: This article was first published by the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer (Australia). It is republished here with permission. The original article can be accessed here. The McCabe...
View ArticleShadowy lobbying against Tobacco Products Directive
This post is republished with full permission from Tobacco Unpacked. A guest blog by Andy Rowell, research fellow at the Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath, and editor of...
View ArticleJapan: Prime Minister appoints tobacco executive to board of national...
Earlier this year, tobacco control advocates from around the world supported an effort by their counterparts in Japan to block a proposed appointment of Mr Katsuhiko Honda, former President of Japan...
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Beyond statistics: the hidden face of smoking-related cancer
This story should be required reading for anyone who works for a tobacco company or denies that tobacco causes horrific suffering. The editorial team at Tobacco Control thanks Karen for her bravery and...
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