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Research shows rise in nicotine use during early COVID

Australia's nicotine consumption increased by 30 per cent in the early stages of the pandemic due to high stress and restrictions, researchers suggest.

AAP

Ministers to set out plans to make England smoke-free by 2030 in ‘coming weeks’

Health minister Neil O’Brien said the Government would soon bring forward its plans for practically eliminating smoking by the end of the decade.

The Independent UK

Paisley man hails ‘Quit and Win’ campaign for helping him kick the habit

He has been tobacco free for eight months and decided to stop smoking after losing his wife Mattie to COPD.

Daily Record

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NZ's smokefree law will reduce the number of tobacco retailers – here's what people who smoke think of that

New Zealand’s smokefree law, which came into effect in January, introduces several world-first endgame measures, including removing most nicotine from smoked products, disallowing product sales to anyone born on or after January 1 2009, and a major reduction in the number of tobacco retail outlets nationwide (from about 6000 to…

The Conversation

Cole Sprouse roasted for smoking indoors on Call Her Daddy: ‘He gives me the ick’

‘It’s giving rich white kid pretending to be a tortured artist,’ one person said

The Independent UK

Is lung inflammation worse in e-cigarette users than smokers, as a new study suggests?

A small study that compared the lungs of cigarette smokers with e-cigarette smokers found that e-cigarette smokers had more lung inflammation than those who smoked tobacco. The pilot study, published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, is the first to use PET imaging to compare smokers’ lungs with vapers’ lungs.

The Conversation

Smokers have no idea about one serious condition the habit causes

Fewer than one in five smokers linked smoking with the brain disease in research for No Smoking Day

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Poorer households spend almost 30% of their income on tobacco, says charity

Homes in the country’s lowest income group containing two or more people who smoke will spend more than £6,000 on tobacco this year

Daily Record

Unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war smoking cigarette shot dead by Russian soldiers

Tymofii Shadura is seen smoking a cigarette in a clearing in a forest and says "slava Ukraini" before he is hit with a barrage of gunfire as the assailants are heard shouting abuse at him

Daily Mirror

Ukraine Investigates Alleged Russian Shooting of Prisoner of War

Kyiv has opened a criminal investigation into what it said was Russia's "brutal and brazen shooting of an unarmed person" depicted in a video spread on social media and prompted a public outcry in Ukraine. The 12-second video, which rapidly amassed shares on Twitter, shows an apparently unarmed man in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

75,000 GP appointments 'could be freed every month by ending smoking'

Cancer Research UK insists the Government should do more to prevent young people start smoking

Wales Online

75,000 GP appointments could be freed every month by ending smoking – charity

Cancer Research UK has called for action by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

The Independent UK

Seth Rogen reveals why he smokes marijuana ‘all day, every single day’

Actor says: ‘Would I just much rather smoke weed all day? Yes’

The Independent UK

Expert warns vaping perhaps 'just as damaging' as smoking - seven linked health problems

A health expert has urged that 'it's important' to take steps to quitting if you currently vape

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Newcastle consultant warns smoking kills brains cells and could see people in 40s and 50s get dementia later in life

Dr Charlotte Allan has urged smokers to quit and reduce their risk of dementia

Sports Illustrated

Smoking Scoreboard Delays Northwestern-Rutgers Men’s Basketball Game

The Wildcats and Scarlet Knights gave new meaning to ‘combustible atmosphere.’

The Conversation

Sex and lies are used to sell vapes online. Even we were surprised at the marketing tactics we found

It’s easy to buy vapes or e-cigarettes online. When we looked at websites selling them to buyers in Australia and New Zealand, we found a variety of slick, false or misleading marketing claims.

The Conversation

A potted history of smoking, and how we're making the same mistakes with vaping

When smoking first became popular we were told it was healthy, it was heavily marketed (including to young people) as being cool, and the time it took for us to learn otherwise was long, and came too late for many. Unfortunately, it seems history is repeating itself with vaping.

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How the push to end tobacco advertising in the 1970s could be used to curb gambling ads today

If you think you are seeing a lot more gambling ads on television and online platforms, you are not imagining it. They are so common that high-profile AFL players have refused to participate in sponsored gambling.

Inverse

Lung Cancer Rates Are Soaring Among Unlikely Groups — an Oncologist Explains Why

Over the past 15 years, more women, non-smokers and younger people have received lung cancer diagnoses.

Wales Online

Drink-driver dragged mum's body 900 metres after killing her in hit-and-run

Pierce Whelan had been smoking cannabis and was double the drink-driving limit

Belfast Live

Belfast services run event to help people with health and cost-of-living

Around 600 people attended the event on Tuesday in the heart of the city.

Boston Herald

Movie review: Guy Ritchie’s 'Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre' a pointless stretch

Whatever you do, do not allow Guy Ritchie, the director of “Snatch,” “Sherlock Holmes,” "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and now the mysteriously titled “Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre,” to direct a Bond movie.

Newsroom.co.nz

'As natural as cheese in a can': Disasters carry human prints

Amid the distress brought by Cyclone Gabrielle, questions begin to form around who is to blame. As is the case in most 'natural' disasters, various corporate and government organisations are left holding smoking guns.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Guns are the biggest public health threat kids face. Why aren’t we warning them?

I still remember the raspy voice of the wizened cancer patient with the hole in her throat. So addicted to the poison that was killing her ‌— cigarettes ‌‌— she interspersed her words of warning about the dangers of smoking with taking puffs of a cigarette through her tracheostomy hole‌‌.

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