Browsing: tobacco

A bill banning anyone born after 2008 from buying tobacco in the UK has completed its progress through parliament in a move that ministers hope will…

A key whistleblower in the tobacco industry’s landmark trials of the 1990s has been watching big tech’s recent court battles closely. Jeffrey Stephen Wigand, a biochemist…

Teenage girls in Europe have the highest rate of tobacco use in their age group around the world, while one in seven adolescents across the continent…

More than 1,200 public health leaders have called for the tobacco and vapes bill to be passed swiftly through parliament to “protect future generations”.They said in…

The “timid” approach by the government when it comes to regulating businesses is a shift from the promises of just a year ago to face down…

Aggressively marketed vapes threaten to undo progress made on smoking control, according to the World Health Organization.Officials, speaking at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in…