Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
Many smokers still think filters make cigarettes safer. But they actually make them more harmful, and the tobacco industry has known about this for a long time.
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Why social smoking can be just as bad for you as daily smoking
About one in 10 Americans say they sometimes smoke, often in social settings. Many think it's not so bad for them. A new study has some scary findings, when it comes to matters of the heart.
Busting the myth that roll-your-own tobacco has fewer additives
Roll-your-own tobacco contains additives to stop it from drying out. So, it's hardly a "natural" or "healthier" alternative to factory made cigarettes.
Cheaper cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco slows smoking’s downward spiral
Fewer young people are smoking, but overall smoking levels remain level. What's stopping smoking levels in all ages dropping further?
World Trade Organisation gives Australia’s plain tobacco packs the (draft) thumbs up
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reportedly backed Australia’s laws on plain tobacco packaging implemented from December 2012. The apparent decision marks the end of the last of three cases brought…
Tobacco tax hikes are great, so long as you’re not a poor smoker
Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows.
Pay people to stop smoking? It works, especially in vulnerable groups
Cigarette smoking kills about 480,000 Americans annually and costs nearly US$170 billion in health care each year. Is it time we considered financial incentives to help people quit?
New health care law would lead to more smoking, disease and tobacco industry profits
While many groups of people stand to lose health insurance benefits under the new health care bill, smokers would be particularly harmed. Here's how cutbacks in cessation programs could harm them.
Twelve myths about e-cigarettes that failed to impress the TGA
E-cigarettes remain effectively banned in Australia because advocates' evidence has failed to convince the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
It’s time to focus on an endgame for tobacco regulation
An "endgame" approach focuses on ending the tobacco pandemic, and foresees a tobacco-free future.
Why requiring low-nicotine cigarettes is still ill-advised
Requiring low-nicotine cigarettes sounds good, but it's not the answer. Policy makers instead should speed up the support of safer, satisfying forms of nicotine and tobacco.
Big Tobacco sees its future in cigarettes, not vaping
In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said “Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco…
When industry-sponsored research is on the nose
A tin pot dictator plunders billions from his blighted nation’s treasury. Sensing he’ll soon be exiled, amid public relations fanfare, he offers ill-gotten millions to a local university for a new school…
Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant
This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. I wrote a column about her last October when her efforts to persuade the Australian superannuation…
Has New Zealand lost its way in tobacco control?
The New Zealand government has decided to reorient its priorities in tobacco control. It has announced it will be pulling 73% of its previous funding support for tobacco control advocacy. The only money…
Are today’s smokers really more ‘hardened’?
As smoking continues its inexorable southward journey toward single-digit percentages of populations being smokers, it’s common to hear people say the smokers who remain are all “hard core”, heavily dependent…
Plain cigarette packaging: healthier citizens, sicker state finances?
France is the latest country to consider a law that would ban branded cigarette packages. How effective are they and what's the economic cost?
E-cigarettes may help smokers cut back but that doesn’t mean they’re not toxic
The regulation of e-cigarettes has been controversial across the world. As the South African government decides on its approach, there are pros and cons to weigh up.
Tobacco companies should be free to use freedom of information laws, even if we don’t like it
Restricting entities such as tobacco companies' use of FOI laws is not the best legal response if it helps public bodies generally become more secretive.
Australian government’s $50m investment in defending against Big Tobacco legal thuggery
Imagine you were about to buy a property and were advised that in two years time, a major freeway would be built two hundred metres away, greatly diminishing the value of your purchase. Then imagine you…
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