Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek and Andrew Waa On December 9 2021, Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall launched the New Zealand (NZ) Government’s action plan to achieve its Smokefree 2025 goal. The Action Plan responded to consultation on a discussion document published in April 2021 that outlined draft proposals. The NZ government committed to a […]
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Will a new FIA President help Formula One Quit Tobacco?
Phil Chamberlain As the season ends, recent trends suggest Formula One will be congratulating itself on record global audiences through 2021. Arguably, the sport’s wider impact is not as healthy. STOP published a report this year that revealed how Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco (BAT) are using their sponsorship of the Ferrari […]
Philip Morris International’s partnerships with local authorities in Europe violate Article 5.3 of the FCTC
Nefely Taravira, Louis Laurence and Filippos T Filippidis Article 5.3 of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) explicitly recommends that parties should not form partnerships with or participate in activities of the tobacco industry. Although more than 180 signatories have ratified the FCTC, including the European Union (EU) and all […]
Tobacco control in Portugal: stagnating with partial indoor smoking bans
Teresa Leão and Henrique Barros In Portugal, one person dies every hour due to a smoking-related disease. In 2019, 13,559 individuals died from a smoking-related illness (11.7% of total deaths for the year), with smoking attributed as the top cause of age-standardized healthy life years lost. In addition, 15% of smoking-related deaths are caused by […]
Is Tobacco Regulatory Science a predatory journal? Hell, yeah! – an Update.
Cristine Delnevo A previous blog post highlighted concerns regarding the recent sale of the journal Tobacco Regulatory Science and questioned whether the journal was likely now a predatory journal. Time would certainly tell. Now the wait is over and in my view, the answer is a resounding “Hell, yeah!” This week we saw the table […]
“BAT in Blood”: British American Tobacco in Belarus
Last month, the US, UK and Canada announced sanctions targeting individuals and entities understood to be financing Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. This legislation follows similar action from the EU in June. These sanctions build on reports of police violence against protesters, mass arrests and even torture, with a U.N. official comparing Belarus to a ‘totalitarian’ […]
In memory of Konstantin Krasovsky
The following obituary is reproduced with permission from the ENSP network. With much sadness we are writing about passing away of Konstantin Krasovsky, a distinguished member of our Network. Konstantin Krasovsky has been known in the world as one of the top public health specialists in tobacco field and worked for decades to make a […]
A strategy for tobacco-free Germany 2040
Laura Graen & Katrin Schaller According to the World Health Organization, Germany is a high burden country regarding tobacco use. Approximately 16 million people are current smokers, and 127,000 people die from the health effects of smoking every year. In addition Germany has the worst tobacco control policy implementation out of 36 European countries and […]
Global Youth Tobacco Survey-4: A Glimmer of hope for India
Ravi Mehrotra and Kavita Yadav The fourth round of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS-4) was conducted in 2019 by the International Institute for Population Sciences under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India. These data provide a useful cross-sectional picture of youth tobacco use, and repeat surveys at regular intervals provide useful […]
Smuggling Networks Linked to China Tobacco Revealed in OCCRP Investigative Series
Charles Turner The China National Tobacco Corporation has grown into the world’s biggest cigarette company by feeding the addiction of China’s approximately 300 million smokers. But now the state-owned giant is ready to take over the rest of the globe. Since jumping on China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” in 2015, CNTC brands have increasingly been […]