Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Tobacco

‘Heavy hit’ or ‘major milestone’? California’s flavored tobacco ban begins with mixed reviews

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Store owners across California on Wednesday were finally required to wipe their shelves clean of fruity, minty and candied flavored tobacco products, marking the culmination of a two-year fight by the tobacco industry to halt a statewide ban.

Tribune News Service

Panel warns FDA’s beleaguered tobacco unit lacks direction

A new report criticizes the Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to oversee the tobacco industry, including traditional cigarettes and vaping products

The Independent UK

NT Supreme Court judge sentences man to jail over illegal tobacco crop near Katherine

A man who played a key role in a multi-million-dollar illicit tobacco operation that tried to avoid paying $15 million to the Australian Tax Office will serve three months in jail.

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Japan approves tax-code revision, more funds for defence build-up

Japan's ruling bloc formally agreed on Friday to revise the national tax code for the next fiscal year starting in April, aiming to shift household assets into investment as part of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's "new capitalism" agenda.

Reuters

These Memos Show That FDA Regulation of E-Cigarettes Is Driven by Dubious Value Judgments Rather Than Science

The agency is determined to ban the flavors that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer. For the children.

Reason

New Zealand Bans Cigarette Sales to Anyone Born After 2008. Forever.

The country's strategy ignores the failures of prohibition.

Reason

People spending £54m every year on tobacco costing local NHS £15m

Statistics in a recent Wirral Council report said smoking was “the biggest cause of preventable ill health” in the area with an estimated 1,386 deaths every year

Liverpool Echo

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

New Zealand’s world first laws effectively ban smoking in the future

New Zealand is set to bring about a smoke-free generation. One expert thinks this will kick off the next wave of tobacco control policies.

The New Daily

NZ Parliament Has Passed Legislation That Will Prevent Future Generations From Buying Cigarettes

The country wants to be completely smoke-free by 2025.

Pedestrian.tv

Tobacco Companies Hit a Supreme Court Hurdle

The Supreme Court rejected an injunction request by tobacco company R.J. Reynolds.

The Street

New Zealanders born after 2009 banned from EVER smoking in bid for cigarette-free future

In theory, someone trying to buy tobacco products 50 years from now in New Zealand would have to show ID to prove they are at least 62 years old - though Wellington has a stated aim of making the country smoke-free by 2025

Daily Mirror

New Zealand imposes world-first lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes

It is part of a nationwide goal of having fewer than 5 per cent of New Zealanders smoking by 2025

Evening Standard

New Zealand Imposes Lifetime Ban on Youth Buying Cigarettes

New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes. The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. It means the minimum age for buying…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Zealand passes historic law banning next generation from ever smoking

‘Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be $5bn better off’

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

New Zealand bans future generations from buying tobacco under new laws

Future generations of New Zealanders will be banned from purchasing tobacco as part of a package of new anti-smoking laws that passed parliament on Tuesday and are among the most strict in the world.

The Independent UK

New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes

New Zealand has passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes

The Guardian - AU

New Zealand passes world-first tobacco law to ban smoking for next generation

The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court upholds California ban on sale of flavored tobacco products

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-minute plea from the tobacco industry and cleared the way for California to enforce a statewide ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court won't block California flavored tobacco ban

The Supreme Court has refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November

Ballotpedia

Welcome to the 15 Days of Ballotpedia!

Welcome to the Monday, December 12, Brew.

Daily Mirror

Tory Steve Barclay to stub out plan to make Britain tobacco free by 2030

Whitehall sources say he is abandoning the scheme to raise the legal age for buying tobacco one year every year until no-one was able to buy cigarettes at all

Reason

Oregon's Anti-Vape Laws Will Put This Deaf Immigrant's Hookah Shop Out of Business

You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.

Bristol Post

Call for Dambuster George 'Johnny' Johnson road name tribute

But Bristol mayor says new street at centre of tobacco road name row has already been decided

Evening Standard

Google Year In Search: Two London attractions were the most searched-for

This year, people around the globe searched for two of London’s top landmarks.

Manchester Evening News

Police uncover haul of illegal tobacco and cigarettes in car after spotting man 'acting suspiciously'

The male ran off and was chased by officers before being detained in Rochdale town centre

1 … 38 39 40 41

People

Christian Schmollinger

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

British American Tobacco

Australian Tax Office

11 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.