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Smoking poleaxed

During about the past 30 years, Poland’s smoking incidence has fallen from 42 percent to 24 percent, and, during about the past 20 years, smoking there has fallen by 60 percent.

Tracking tobacco costly

UK retailers are concerned that an EU tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system could prove burdensome.

Party poopers

It would seem that, in Turkey at least, now is the time for all good vapers to come to the aid of the party.

Campaigns lack teeth

Although Kenya banned tobacco smoking in public places in 2007, activists say that not much has happened since to lighten the burden of tobacco-related diseases.

Tobacco travel ban

Passengers are to be frisked at Metro stations in Lucknow, India, to prevent them from taking tobacco products on to trains.

Tobacco antis ‘gut-punched’

Some in tobacco control are unhappy about Derek Yach’s involvement in the ‘Foundation for a Smoke-free World’. But rather than prejudge the outcome, they need to make sure they hold his feet to the fire.

CORESTA deadlines near

The online registration deadlines for CORESTA’s 2017 Joint Study Group meetings are September 27 and October 8.

Natural selection end-game

Human evolution might be eradicating the genetic variation linked to heavy smoking, but this is always going to be the longest ‘end-game’ imaginable.

E-cigarettes are “fun”

Electronic cigarettes are fun and effective at getting people to quit smoking. So what’s not to like? Well, according to one observer, it’s the fun bit.

Vaping provides no gateway

Regular electronic-cigarette use among never smokers is ‘very rare’, according to the findings of a major new study in the UK.

Clearing the smoke

Just in case you live in Scotland and are in any doubt about electronic cigarettes, health organizations in that country have stated that vaping is definitely less harmful than is smoking.

Another day, another study

Even studies of the effects of vaping electronic cigarettes that find negative consequences cannot come to any conclusion other than that smokers would do well to switch to vaping.

Understanding vaping

The Global Forum on Nicotine is once again taking to the road to encourage a wider debate about the issues surrounding vaping.

Party poopers

It would seem that, in Turkey at least, now is the time for all good vapers to come to the aid of the party.

Vuse is boycott target

Vuse, the top-selling US electronic cigarette, is being targeted by a farmworker labor group unhappy with Reynolds American Inc’s attitude to tobacco-farmworker conditions of employment.

PMI supports FDA proposal

Andre Calantzopoulos, the chief executive of Philip Morris International, says that recent proposals by the US Food and Drug Administration invite dialogue rather than litigation.

Litigation launched in China

What is said to be China’s first private litigation over tobacco smoking in public places has been launched by a woman who allegedly suffered anguish on board a smoky train.

‘Smoking fee’ ruled out

A ‘smoking-cessation tax’ that would have raised about $225 million, but only $1 million of which would have been spent on smoking cessation, has been ruled unconstitutional in the US.

Boost for ban challenge

The Swedish government’s decision not to provide observations in relation to a case being brought to overturn an EU ban on the sale of snus is seen as a boost to that challenge.

FDA on shaky ground

Just seven days after the US Food and Drug Administration announced its new tobacco and nicotine agenda, there is speculation about court challenges.