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This week’s announcement of a raft of new tobacco control measures – including banning menthol products and proposing health warnings on individual cigarettes – are important and welcome.

Despite widespread market volatility and rising recession fears, the U.S. economy looks resilient enough to deal with a palpable growth slowdown. Experts are hopeful that the broader markets will stabilize eventually. Amid this, investors should exercise caution and consider adding fundamentally strong and defensive stocks Altria Group (MO) and Sprouts…

Therapeutic Goods Administration to investigate border control laws, as well as tougher regulation of nicotine products and advertising

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds many children do not know they are consuming highly addictive nicotine in vapes until it is too late

Callum Baker and Lily Tomlinson called the police when they found the unknown substances inside the Poundland gift boxes they were planning to use for Christmas

The advent of vaping revived nicotine addiction among young people after a dramatic decline. The FDA seems poised to at last yank some products aimed at teens from the market. Will it work?

Callum Baker and Lily Tomlinson had bought the boxes to put presents in but got a surprise when they opened one of them

Revenue have said that investigations into both cases are ongoing

Around 2.10 per cent of girls smoke cigarettes and 2.40 per cent of boys consume cigarettes in Madhya Pradesh

A 350.org database shows almost two dozen arts organisations are still reliant on mining money – but some are hunting for alternatives

A UK company has vowed to pay the £2,200 fines if fans get caught