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Focus on World No Tobacco Day

Screening for oral cancer, raids against smoking in public planned

The Hindu

E-liquid firm sends vaping message to WHO for World No Tobacco Day

The WHO has consistently advised against vaping

Wales Online

Legal age for buying cigarettes in UK could be upped to 21 - or even 25

A Government plan to make the UK smoke-free by 2030 will be published this year

Wales Online

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Indonesia’s young people are taking on Big Tobacco

The tobacco industry profits from child labour and sky-high youth smoking rates in Indonesia. Young people are fighting back.

360info

African countries need tighter controls to curb growing tobacco use

Average global smoking rates have fallen over the past 12 years with the proportion of people aged 15 or older who smoke declining from 22.6% in 2007 to 19.6% in 2019.

The Conversation

Special Report: Tobacco's toxic reach

The environmental impacts of the tobacco industry, and its attempts to divert attention from them, are only beginning to be realised.

360info

Big Tobacco’s toxic waste dodge

The waste tobacco products create is an increasingly recognised environmental hazard. Environmental laws might be used to tackle it.

360info

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Don't be fooled by Big Tobacco's sustainability awards

Tobacco companies want you to know they are great corporate citizens. But it’s all a fig leaf for their environmental offences.

360info

Malaysia makes case for smoking end game

Malaysia’s plan to phase out tobacco will cost the country tax revenue, but economics suggest it will benefit the country in the long run.

360info

Bhutan banned smoking and it didn’t go so well

The world watched as Bhutan enforced a blanket ban on tobacco: could the solution be as effective as it was simple?

360info

Cigarette ads were banned decades ago. Let's do the same for fossil fuels

There is no reasonable disagreement that humanity needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. People might argue over how large a reduction is necessary or about the best ways to achieve it, but almost everyone agrees it has to be done.

The Conversation

Cancer hospital’s initiative to help tobacco farmers grow alternative crops

More than 15,000 high-grade saplings and over 8,000 saplings of lucrative seasonal fruits had already been supplied to the farmers free of cost under the project

The Hindu

Jharkhand to get WHO award for tobacco control

National Tobacco Control Programme was launched in Jharkhand in 2012 when the tobacco prevalence rate in the State was 51.1 per cent

The Hindu

Rajasthan hopes 2 crore people will quit tobacco this year

JAIPUR: To mark World Tobacco Day on May 31, the health department is preparing to launch a massive campaign to encourage people to take a pledge not to consume tobacco. In 2019, Rajasthan had set a record in which over 1.13-crore people had taken a pledge not to consume tobacco.…

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About a third cut smoking for Covid fear, as many took it up

MUMBAI: The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown affected smokers in a diverse manner. While nearly a third of smokers interviewed for a national survey said they either cut down smoking or thought of quitting, fearing Covid-19 would severely affect them, another one-third increased smoking due to "loneliness" and "boredom" brought…

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu: Tobacco use not just health hazard, an eco burden too

CHENNAI: Lectures, walkathons and survey releases will happen over the weekend across the city for World No Tobacco Day (May 31). But messages echoing from everywhere are the same – TN, like every other state, should bring down the use of tobacco to reduce health and environmental hazards.

Birmingham Post

How old Imperial Tobacco factory in Nottingham is being transformed into 426,000 sq ft business park

Factory opened in 1970s and at its peak employed more than 7,000 people and produced billions of cigarettes a year

Nottingham Post

Work begins on site of old Imperial Tobacco factory after 'years of uncertainty'

A £50m deal has been secured

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State ballot initiatives on health focus on abortion, drugs

WASHINGTON — It’s still early, but so far at least eight of the estimated 90 state initiatives that voters will decide on this year are related to health, including four amendments — the most ever in one year — related to abortion access.

The Guardian - UK

Big Tobacco is killing the planet with plastics. No smokescreen should be allowed to hide that

Greenwashing ploys cannot mask the pollution wreaked both by cigarettes and new nicotine products

Roll Call

State ballot initiatives on health focus on abortion, drugs - Roll Call

Initiatives that have made state ballots so far include proposals on abortion, Medicaid expansion, drugs and tobacco.

The Hindu

Farmers plead with Centre not to double cess on tobacco

It will make our produce uncompetitive in the global market, they say

The Hindu

750 kg of gutka seized in Usilampatti; 5 arrested

67 bags of banned tobacco products were being smuggled in an SUV

Liverpool Echo

Should England's minimum legal smoking age be changed?

The government want to make the country smoke free by 2030

The Hindu

World No Tobacco Day: Simultaneous raids against smoking in public and other violations of COTPA on May 31

Detailed reports on number of cases booked, amount of penalty charged to be submitted to the City Police Commissioner by next day morning

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