Could age-verification and age-gating technologies help get the balance right between flavoured alternative nicotine products as smoking-cessation aids for adults and keeping them away from under-age users?…
Health and science
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South Goa officials prosecute shops selling tobacco too close to schools...
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Court rules local governments can set laws, including bans, on flavoured tobacco...
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EC opens consultation on health plan that could affect tobacco...
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Healthcare agency warns of risks of smokeless tobacco...
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Plans underway to replace GST compensation cess with new levies...
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District court grants injunction in case challenging mass firings at HHS...
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Policy paper recommends taxing e-cigs and tobacco products based on harm profile...
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WHO launches initiative to raise tobacco prices through health taxes...
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BVTE presents benefits of novel tobacco and nicotine products to MPs...
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WHO EMRO publishes tenth ‘report on global tobacco epidemic’...
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Minimarkets and kiosks banned from selling tobacco products...
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Philip Morris International (PMI)’s modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) submission status for Zyn nicotine pouches has raised a few interesting comparisons with existing reduced-risk products…
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With great fanfare, the US Food and Drug Administration has announced the rollout of its new artificial intelligence scientific review assistant, Elsa. But questions have been raised about the tool’s potential…
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Researchers say laws are strict enough and do not endorse pouch bans...
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Republika Srpska approves draft tobacco law, which includes pouches...
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Recently, three harm-reduction advocacy organisations have stopped operating, and though they gave different reasons for closing, they have more in common than the explanations might suggest…
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Survey shows majority want stricter rules on smoking in public...
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RIVM warns of excessively high nicotine levels in ‘nicotine sticks’...
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Replication is necessary to determine whether the recent critical meta-analysis of heated tobacco studies holds water. It was generally down on both the reduced risk potential of heated tobacco products (HTPs) and their ability to function as smoking-cessation aids…
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NCHR recommendations address tobacco and smoking...
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Health ministry warns of dangers of flavoured heated tobacco...
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PIA infographic warns of smoking hazards...
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Ministry says HTPs have higher levels of toxicity than cigarettes...
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Health ministry intensifies awareness raising of tobacco dangers...
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NRC is using WHO data to direct tobacco awareness campaigns...
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National awareness campaign about tobacco risks is launched...
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HPC publishes figures for tobacco product use...
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Public health agency warns against novel nicotine products...
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Capmas statement emphasises gravity of health threat from tobacco...
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Plans for plain packaging and more smoke- and vape-free areas...
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FPS urges caution on 6-methyl nicotine, said to be very addictive...
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Parliament is 100% smoke-free, says its president...
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Pictorial health warnings to be required on tobacco products...
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Government prepares for new tobacco and nicotine testing rules...
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Tobacco companies accused of using deceptive promotional strategies...
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Campaign launched for awareness about risks associated with tobacco...
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WHO pushes for tobacco tax increases...
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WHO regional director makes statement ahead of World No Tobacco Day...
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Medical organisations express concern over HHS cuts...
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Health ministry uses social media to warn about tobacco advertising...
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March saw Australia’s largest-ever haul of illegal cigarettes and vapes by a health authority, and similar seizures have occurred in the wake of regulations in effect since October…
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Minister and other officials win World No Tobacco Day award...
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Ministry warns against heated tobacco use...
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Why has the Netherlands taken such a harsh, prohibitionist stance on nicotine when it has historically been liberal in its approach to other so-called vice products?…
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Health minister attributes rising cancer cases to tobacco use...
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Ministry warns against nicotine and tobacco use...
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New US surgeon general nominee Casey Means has not publicly laid out any position on vaping, nicotine or smoking cessation, but some of her public comments suggest she may be amenable to reduced-harm products…
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Anti-smoking group says ‘tobacco mafia’ poses threat to public health...
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All flavours should be banned for nicotine products, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which also wants increased regulation of advertising, limits on hardware design, and plain packaging requirements implemented across the board…
