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Banning menthol cigarettes and more health warnings are only the start. Australia could look to NZ for how to do tobacco control

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.

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2 Defensive Stocks That Deserve a Spot in Your Portfolio

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…

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Australia to consider tougher nicotine e-cigarette import and labelling laws to tackle teen vaping

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

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Australian government to crack down on nicotine e-cigarettes as rates of teen vaping skyrocket

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

The Guardian - AU

Couple shocked to discover mystery white powder and tobacco in Poundland gift box

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

Daily Mirror

The chase is on: Regulators are slowly cracking down on vapes aimed at teens

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?

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Couple find mystery powder and tobacco inside Poundland gift box

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

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Dublin Airport dog search finds 150kg chewing tobacco while two arrested with 4kg cannabis at ferry port

Revenue have said that investigations into both cases are ongoing

Dublin Live

In MP, Girls Take Up Smoking Cigarettes Aged 7, Says Survey Report

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

Dynamite News

Tobacco companies can’t sponsor Australian arts. Should fossil fuel giants be banned too?

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

The Guardian - AU

One common habit many football fans have no idea is banned in Qatar

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

Wales Online

There's No Constitutional Right To Own a Pit Bull, Federal Court Says

Plus: A flawed study on marijuana risks, the collapsing publishing-house merger, and more...

Reason

Choose your adventure in Belize: Islands and ruins, caves and cuisine

On my first full day in Belize, I climbed Mayan pyramids under a blazing sun — and then cooled off by swimming to a mountain cascade.

Tribune News Service

Cal still fighting on football death

More evidence that when elite universities get hooked on football, they start behaving like tobacco companies

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Deadly Disease More Common In Cannabis Smokers Than Cigarette Smokers

Smoking a marijuana joint deposits four times more particulates in the lung than an average tobacco cigarette, says a researcher.

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CCTV footage captures men stealing $50,000 worth of cigarettes from Paget store

The grainy CCTV shows three, hooded men scrambling through a closed shopping centre in the early hours of the morning, raiding a tobacco shop and carrying off $50,000 of cigarettes away in a blanket.

Reason

California's Vaping Flavor Ban Could Be Lethal

By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.

Bristol Post

Men steal 'several hundreds of pounds' of tobacco from Bristol Co-op

Investigating officers would like to speak with the two people pictured following the theft

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Bristol Post

Bristol mayor vetoes plan to name new road after cigarette brand

The idea came from Bristol City Council's own street-naming team after a ward councillor objected to the original suggestion

Birmingham Post

Tobacco giant Imperial Brands' profits hit after Russia exit

The Bristol-headquartered company said it was 'confident' its investments would help improve operating profits in 2023

Belfast Live

Downpatrick shop worker forced to fill bag with cash and tobacco during robbery

It happened in the Fountain Street area of Downpatrick

Wales Online

Shop handed closure order after selling counterfeit tobacco and vapes to children

The store has been issued with a three month closure order

Chronicle Live

Two men fined after being caught selling illegal cigarettes and tobacco in County Durham

Kenneth Allen and James Millican were both ordered to pay fines at Peterlee Magistrates' Court

The Guardian - UK

Smoking is back in candy-coloured disguise - and a whole new generation is addicted

Tobacco companies are pouring money into e-cigarettes and making them attractive to teens, says Sarah Boseley, the Guardian’s former health editor

Los Angeles Times

A measure to place abortion protections in the California Constitution ahead in early returns

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A measure to codify progressive abortion protections in the California Constitution under Proposition 1 was leading in early results on Tuesday, prompting supporters to pop open champagne.

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