John Oliver describes how tobacco industry maintains profitability
Thanks to tobacco industry regulations and marketing restrictions in the US, smoking rates have dropped dramatically. On HBO’s Last Week Tonight, former Daily Show comedian John Oliver explains how...
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Negotiating healthy trade in Australia: Health impact assessment of the...
The Centre for Health Equity, Training Research and Evaluation at the University of New South Wales in Australia has released a report assessing the health impact of the Trans Pacific Partnership. The...
View ArticleWhen it comes to e-cigs, Big Tobacco is concerned for your health
The health warning on a MarkTen electronic cigarette package is 116 words long. That’s much longer than the warnings on traditional cigarette packs in the United States. Nicotine, the e-cig warning...
View ArticleGroup’s lawsuits aim to boost public health
The Center for Public Health Litigation, a new Boston group, seeks to promote public health through the courts. According to the Boston Globe, the Center is currently pursuing cases against the tobacco...
View Article“Fighting a Hurricane”: Tobacco Industry Efforts to Counter Perceived Threat...
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health describes attempts by the tobacco industry to reinterpret Islamic teaching to make smoking acceptable to Muslims and to help develop markets in...
View ArticleCampaign for Tobacco Free Kids #StopMarlboro
The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids is asking those concerned about Philip Morris International’s BeMarlboro global marketing campaign to sign the petition below. Read more about the campaign here....
View ArticleMove Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to FBI?
Following an investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the Center for American Progress released a report that outlines the challenges that the bureau faces in...
View ArticleWHO calls for action against illicit tobacco trade on World No Tobacco Day
Eliminating the illicit trade in tobacco would generate an annual tax windfall of US$ 31 billion for governments, improve public health, help cut crime and curb an important revenue source for the...
View ArticleU.S. Chamber of Commerce Works Globally to Fight Antismoking Measures
From Ukraine to Uruguay, reports the New York Times, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its foreign affiliates have become the hammer for the tobacco industry, engaging in a worldwide effort to fight...
View ArticleNewsweek Pakistan forced to apologize for love song to the Marlboro Man
The Network for Consumer Protection, a Pakastani consumer protection organization, has won a judgment against Newsweek Pakistan for publishing an article that both implicitly and explicitly promoted...
View ArticleInteractive Map Documents Rising Tide of State Preemption
by Grassroots Change Since the 1980s, preemption has been used to undermine grassroots movements across public health issues including tobacco, nutrition, housing and gun violence. But over the last...
View ArticleTaxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages: Linkages and lessons...
A review of taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugary beverages in Social Sciences and Medicine concludes that while “specific taxes based on the volume of beverages are likely to reduce the demand for...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Must Protect Nations’ Right to Enact...
Statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids The nations of the Trans Pacific Partnership (credit) As they complete negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade...
View ArticleDeath of a public health champion: Warren Braren
Last week, reported the New York Times, Warren Braren, a critic of the tobacco industry who helped to spark a Congressional ban on tobacco advertising, died at the age of 82. Let’s examine the...
View ArticleFDA for First Time Orders Major Cigarette Brand Pulled Off the Market,...
Statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids WASHINGTON, DC – For the first time since being granted regulatory authority over tobacco products by a 2009 law, the U.S. Food...
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Health and Trade: what hope for SDG3?
Emma Woodford, Founder and Director, Health and Trade Network (HaT) Cross posted from Health and Trade Network “… the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate...
View ArticleHere’s how Congress can prevent 200,000 deaths
By Nicholas Freudenberg – Cross-posted from The Hill Want to prevent more than 200,000 premature deaths among Americans born between 2000 and 2019? The answer seems like a no-brainer. Last week, Senate...
View ArticleTPP Caves to the Tobacco Industry, Threatens Public Health
Ellen R. Shaffer, Joseph E. Brenner Nov. 6, 2015 Cross-posted from CPATH The vacuous “tobacco control” provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) virtually capitulates to the...
View ArticleNew poll shows most Americans think e-cigarettes are harmful
A new national poll shows that most Americans believe electronic cigarettes are harmful to people’s health. The findings could bolster the Food and Drug Administration as it moves to regulate...
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Tobacco, alcohol and processed food industries – Why are they viewed so...
Katherine Smith November 18, 2015 Cross-posted from Policy and Politics Blog One of the few indisputable truths in life is that we will all, eventually, die but what we will die of, and at...
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