Health Canada is looking for outside experts to review its tobacco control strategy — a federal program that appears to have hit a wall after years of helping to drive down smoking rates.
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Life insurance companies no longer treating marijuana use as high risk as tobacco
Some of Canada’s biggest insurance companies have updated their policies on marijuana use. The changes have a major impact on regular users’ premiums.
Australia wins landmark tobacco packaging ruling at World Trade Organization
Australia won a clear victory in a major trade dispute over its pioneering tobacco packaging law.
The Overlooked Children Working America’s Tobacco Fields
KINSTON, North Carolina—They would wake up at five or six in the morning. They didn’t know where they were going, but they knew how far it was, what time the day had to start. Yesenia Cuello’s mother would fix breakfast, or if the girls were up early they would do it themselves to help her […]
Parliament passes plain tobacco packaging law, regulates vaping
The Liberal government has passed a sweeping overhaul of the country’s tobacco laws — legislation that will formally legalize (and heavily regulate) vaping and give Health Canada the powers it needs to mandate plain packaging for cigarettes. The bill, S-5, is one of the most ambitious overhauls of the Tobacco Act in a generation. It enacts […]
Small-Scale Tobacco Farmers Are Giving Zimbabwe Reason to Dream
On his 5-hectare farm near Shamva, Oliver Namangwiya produces 4,300 kilograms of cured tobacco every year, earning at least $ 9,000 each season — 10 times the average annual income in Zimbabwe. He rotates crops, plants 1.5 hectares of maize every year and also sells that on the local market. Globally, small land holdings like […]
U.S. Centers for Disease Control head resigns amid controversy over tobacco stock
Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has resigned over financial conflicts of interest, U.S. officials announce.
The head of the CDC resigns after report says she purchased shares of a tobacco company while in office
CDC Director Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald resigned after a report said she traded Japan Tobacco while leading the agency. “Dr. Fitzgerald owns certain complex financial interests that have imposed a broad recusal limiting her ability to complete all of her duties as the CDC director,” a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman said in a […]
Anti-smoking plan may kill cigarettes — and save Big Tobacco
Imagine if cigarettes were no longer addictive and smoking itself became almost obsolete with only a tiny segment of Americans still lighting up. That’s the goal of an unprecedented anti-smoking plan being carefully fashioned by U.S. health officials.
Smokers pay more, but it’s tobacco companies, not the government, cashing in
Cigarette prices have increased in Canada over the past two years, but they’ve done so gradually, without any major federal tax hikes, providing a big revenue boost for tobacco companies, an anti-smoking group says. CBC | Health News
