Elliott backs Philip Morris’s $16 billion Swedish Match takeover, Financial Times reports
Activist investor Elliott Management Corp has decided to back Marlboro-maker Philip Morris International's (PMI) (PM.N) $16 billion offer for Swedish Match AB (SWMA.ST), the...
Using models disconnected from reality to justify huge ‘endgame’ interventions
New Zealand is planning to introduce so-called ‘endgame’ measures, including the removal of nicotine from legally available tobacco.
We examine and review the modelling used...
Study Explores Smoking Cessation Aids And Strategies in Norway
A study published in BMC looked into the different smoking cessation strategies in Norway and their different success rates.
The study titled “Smoking cessation aids...
California’s anti-vaping ballot question isn’t about ‘protecting children’
It's about protecting adults from themselves, which should be none of the government’s business.
Los Angeles Times' columnist George Skelton usually is a sensible guy....
Anti-smoking forces outspend cigarette industry on California ballot measure to ban flavored tobacco
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated millions to the Yes on Prop 31 campaign.
A ballot measure to ban the sale of flavored...
