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Desperate to Win the Smokefree Race, New Zealand Resorts to Prohibition

Bhutan was the first country to ban the import and sale of tobacco, in 2004. But New Zealand is held up as the country...

Senate Democrats Nix a Regressive, Unhealthy Vaping Tax Endorsed by the House

The perverse provision would have discouraged smokers from switching to a far less hazardous source of nicotine Senate Democrats have nixed the idea of imposing...

An open letter to the New Brunswick Medical Society about vaping

The New Brunswick Medical Society (NBMS) recently published “Physicians pleased with new restrictions on vaping products“. As a physician, I would l like to make...

We know ‘smoking kills’ but still do it – what will actually make us quit?

I am among the one in five people in the UK who smoke, contributing packet by packet to the £18billion we spend yearly on tobacco products. My...

’Big Tobacco’ Companies Leave Legacy of High LGBTQ Smoking Rates | EDGE Miami, FL

Smoking is big business in the United States. Almost 250 billion cigarettes are sold every year to smokers, totaling more than $228 billion in sales. But these...