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Major streaming companies Amazon, Netflix, Disney, frustrated from smoking scenes health warning requirements in India

12 Jun 202313 Jun 2023

India's health ministry issued a decree requiring online program streaming services to include health warnings in scenes involving actors smoking. The streaming service companies Disney, Netflix and Amazon complain that…

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Individual cigarette stick health warnings legislated in Canada as Australia will follow suit

3 Jun 20234 Aug 2023

Canada is the first country in the world to enforce pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets in 2002 that has now disgracefully become the first country to impose individual cigarette…

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Australian government panic over vaping where it is still illegal

3 May 202314 Aug 2023

Back in 1963 Martin Luther King stated that "We have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws". This is ever so true of the present situation in Australia where the…

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The British Health Minister WILL NOT increase the minimum age requirement to buy tobacco by one year every year

11 Apr 20237 May 2023

A new initiative by Britain's Department of Health in partnership with public health, called Swap to Stop, is distributing e-cigarettes to 1 million smokers to help them quit. The exact…

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UK government taking additional law enforcement action on illegal underage sales of disposable vapes

10 Apr 202310 Apr 2023

The government is taking additional law enforcement action to ensure that the law that allows vaping and smoking to be sold exclusively to adults over 18 is followed by tillkeepers…

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Italy: External smoking bans “dictatorial” and “over the top” according to Georgia Meloni’s cabinet

22 Mar 202323 Mar 2023

Smoking in open-air bars and at bus stops could soon be banned in Italy, according to a draft law published by La Stampa. The health ministry's proposed crackdown on smoking…

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Bill proposed in California to phase out smoking via prohibition to next generations

19 Feb 202327 Mar 2023

Assembly Bill 935, introduced by California Assembly member Damon Connoly, seeks to introduce a “phased tobacco ban” to California. If passed, tobacco retailers would be prohibited from selling tobacco products…

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Mexico and Italy reinvent narrowed-down versions of the smoking ban

20 Jan 202320 Jan 2023

Mexico and the socialist government of its president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has enacted one of the strictest smoking bans in the world, establishing a complete ban on smoking in…

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Michael Mansfield said eating meat could be banned like smoking inside in 2017 Labour Conference

13 Jan 202313 Jan 2023

Forest Director Simon Clark said that "The health risks of smoking are well known but it's a legitimate habit that millions of adults enjoy. Banning the sale of cigarettes to…

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Portuguese smoking ban amended and smoking allowed in bars and restaurants

12 Jan 202312 Jan 2023

'In catering or drinking establishments, including those with rooms or spaces intended for dancing, places where smoking is allowed in areas intended for customers may be set up, provided that…

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The Forest Association announced that it will challenge setting 21 as the legal age to buy tobacco in 2023

31 Dec 202215 Aug 2024

The British smokers' association Forest has announced that in the new year 2023 it is going to conduct a campaign against the delimitation of 21 years as a minimum age…

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New Zealanders will not be able to smoke normal cigarettes in addition to cannabis post to the 2019 legalisation Referendum

21 Dec 202213 May 2024

During its second and final reading, the New Zealand House of Representatives, voted on 13 December 2022 in favour of the proposed law from November 2021 by the Government of…

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New Zealand generational endgame for smoking passes its second and final reading and awaits Royal Assent

15 Dec 202221 Dec 2022

At its second and final reading, the New Zealand House of Representatives passed the proposed law from November 2021 by Jacinda Arden's Labour Party government banning those who come of…

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The U.S. WILL NOT HAVE pictorial-graphic health warnings on cigarettes – the court declared them to be unconstitutional

9 Dec 20229 Dec 2022

The United States along with the American People and the tobacco industry with the land of the free have ridded themselves of the obligation to print pictorial and graphic health…

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RJ Reynolds sues California referendum flavour ban result for tobacco and vapour

12 Nov 202212 Nov 2022

The second American tobacco company after Altria (Parent of Philip Morris) RJ Reynolds which since 2017 together with the parent Reynolds American belongs to the British multinational British American Tobacco…

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Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Italy will not implement E.U. flavour ban on HTPs

11 Nov 2022

Proposal delegate act from E.U. health commissioner Stella Kyriakidou from Greece to ban all flavoured heated tobacco products except from tobacco flavours has not been objected by the European Parliament…

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Californians ‘vote against themselves’ in menthol cigarette ban referendum

9 Nov 202218 Nov 2022

All of the sudden Californians have voted against themselves by vetoing their actions in person of those buying and selling menthol cigarettes while being able and permitted to do so,…

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Irish health ministry denies smoking will get banned in parks and beaches

26 Oct 202226 Oct 2022

The Irish Department of Health has denied suggestions that smoking will be banned in public parks and beaches. It was reported in the Irish Independent on Friday that the move…

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Tereza Coffey smoker-friendly vice-premiership scrapped after Truss resignation

21 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

Liz Truss has announced her resignation after just 44 days in the top political office of Britain's prime minister, bowing to unbearable pressure from her own Conservative party and the main…

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The Forest Association chairman supports the Truss-Coffey administration

19 Oct 202219 Oct 2022

The health secretary appointed by Liz Truss in the UK who is also the deputy prime minister smokes, has accepted money and hospitality from the multinational tobacco company Imperial Tobacco…

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The new Secretary for Health in the UK a friend of smoking and democracy

14 Oct 202214 Oct 2022

The report commissioned by Britain's previous government of Boris Johnson from charity executive Javid Khan to analyse public health disparities and by extension the further fight against smoking had as…

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What lies behind the European petition registry for a smoke free Europe?

6 Oct 20229 Dec 2022

The Danish government drafted a bill last March to ban the sale of tobacco products to those born after 2010, but it was derailed by EU rules that make it…

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Greek health commissioner of the EC plans EU-wide flavour ban for heated tobacco products

21 Sep 202221 Sep 2022

The European Commission, amazed by the excessively positive performance of sales of electronic heating tobacco systems, set out to ban them in their flavoured form. Heating tobacco showed a vertically…

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Registered EU Petition by the EC calls for variable age limit for purchasing tobacco

31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022

The European Commission said it has drawn up the European citizens' resolution called "A call for a smoke-free environment and the first European smoke-free generation by 2030" which should have…

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NZ Labor Government pursues legislation enacted to the expense of smokers

13 Aug 202217 Aug 2022

While the Labour Party of Great Britain was the first government to enact initial counter-smoking legislation being a smoking ban and the Labor government of Australia in 2012 was the…

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Malaysia revokes passing of legislation with progressive age limit for tobacco

6 Aug 20226 Aug 2022

Malaysia has withdrawn an amendment to a bill tabled in parliament for debate that would have raised the age limit for purchasing tobacco products to target those born before 2007.…

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Filipino vape bill passed into law

2 Aug 20229 Aug 2022

Neither former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines nor current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ratified the law passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Philippines in…

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What the opposition supports on the New Zealand endgame law for smoking

1 Aug 202223 Sep 2023

New Zealand Labor's controversial bill to gradually raise the age limit for legal supply of tobacco products from the market each year until no one is legally allowed to supply…

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Countries imposing tobacco plain packaging received funding from the W.H.O. according to Mike Ridgway

23 Jul 202214 Aug 2022

The director of the Consumer Packaging Manufacturer Alliance, Mike Ridgway, having more than 40 years of experience in his field for Europe and especially Great Britain, gave an interview on…

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The UK joins New Zealand threatening progressive age limit for the sale of tobacco

20 Jun 20229 Apr 2023

The conclusion regarding the further fight against smoking, entrusted in February by the British Minister of Health Sahid Javid to the executive in favour of charitable activities and actions of…

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Dialogue and Democracy needed to confront crucial issues according to PMI poll

19 Jun 202221 Dec 2023

A poll conducted on behalf of Philip Morris by Povaddo last February, the results of which were published on 13 June, showed that the vast majority of the public in…

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The Netherlands consider imposing cigarette prices similar to those in Oceania

16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022

Cigarettes in the Netherlands cost an average of 8 Euros and 20% of Dutch people smoke regularly. The Ministry of Health intends to increase their price by 2 euros by…

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Pollsters asking the British public to decide about banning cigarettes

22 May 202226 May 2022

Polls have invaded Britain from Australia that are asking the question of banning cigarettes to the sample about whether they would agree or disagree. Such polls were conducted in Oceania…

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Finland imposes plain tobacco packaging by including e-cigs in the logo ban

15 May 202230 Sep 2022

In Finland, smoking is allowed in secular centres provided there is a separate smoking area with adequate ventilation. Also, the minimum age for buying cigarettes is 16 years. From May…

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E-cig bans lifted while Australian study asserts on their effectiveness

13 Apr 20221 May 2023

From August 3, 2022, the sale and consumption of electronic smoking alternatives will be legal in Malaysia after persistent efforts by organizations, associations and unions to persuade the government to…

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Danish Health minister obstructed from E.U. T.P.D. to impose increasing age-limit on tobacco consumption

10 Apr 202224 Mar 2024

Danish health minister Magnus Heunicke has met with opposition from EU law to a permanent ban on smoking by Danes with a progressively increasing age limit as he has planned…

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Brazil is considering legalising e-cigs

10 Apr 202215 May 2022

E-cigarettes, although allowed to be sold to most people, are not allowed everywhere. There are 47 countries in the world that ban the consumption of e-cigarettes. The WHO erroneously in…

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Acclaimed medical researcher Costas Farsalinos disagrees with vaporiser flavour prohibitions

25 Feb 202215 May 2022

"Adults smoke because they like to smoke. I understand the case of certain aromatic flavours [from e-cigarettes] that respond to youth. But let's be honest. Adults also like the flavours.…

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New Zealand planning to phase out smoking by step of age – what if someone is a Maori aboriginal?

18 Dec 202115 May 2022

Unfortunately smoking is not accessible anymore in New Zealand for those who will be aged below 14 inclusive as of 2022 because whoever was born after 2008 inclusive may not…