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- 1 June 2024
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Revealed: how Sunak dropped smoking ban amid lobbying from tobacco firms (published by The Guardian on June 29th, 2024)
Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPs.
Doctors accuse Nationals of serving interests of tobacco lobby by opposing vaping prohibition (published by The Guardian on June 23rd, 2024)
AMA president says party’s push to regulate vapes like cigarettes is a ‘tax grab’ that shows ‘complete disregard’ for health.
Tobacco industry expands alliances with Black and LGBTQ+ activists (published by The Washington Post on June 21st, 2024)
Tobacco companies woo Black and LGBTQ+ allies to loosen vaping regulations and fight Biden administration plan to ban menthol cigarettes.
Lawmakers slam FDA, DOJ for lack of illicit vaping enforcement (published by The Hill on June 12, 2024)
Senators from both sides of the aisle had strong words for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) for their lax enforcement of illicit vapes.
B.C. woman fuming that seniors' advocacy group CARP in bed with Big Tobacco company (published by CBC on June 03, 2024)
Philip Morris International funded a focus group on smoking habits hosted by Canadian Association of Retired Persons — the country's largest advocacy group for older adults — through its Canadian subsidiary Rothmans, Benson & Hedges.
Tobacco funded research: how even journals with bans find it hard to stem the tide of publications (published by BMJ on May 30, 2024)
Prestigious medical journals are publishing studies funded by medical companies with financial ties to the tobacco industry despite attempts by some to bar tobacco-funded research from publication.
Tobacco companies use subliminal menthol to achieve the same goals as menthol as a characterizing flavor. Regulators should prohibit all menthol, not just as a characterizing flavor (Andre Luiz Oliveira da Silva, Lauren K. Lempert, Stanton A. Glantz. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2024, 111346, ISSN 0376-8716)