Current tobacco laws fall short in protecting children: Gaps in Australian tobacco laws are allowing children to be targeted by retailers, with some using window toy displays, cartoons and movie characters on their shopfronts, University of Queensland researchers have found. In a comprehensive review of Australian federal, state and territory tobacco control laws, researchers analysed […]
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Older people exchange Cannabis for Tabaco – New research from Curtin University has revealed increasing cigarette prices over the past several years have seen more older Australians turn to cannabis use as an alternative. Researchers from Curtin’s School of Accounting, Economics and Finance investigated the buying habits of nearly 100,000 Australians from 2001 to 2019 […]
Alcohol is the most commonly used substance, while vaping is now more common than cigarette smoking among young people, according to a new WHO/Europe report coordinated by researchers at the University of Glasgow. The latest data from across Europe, Central Asia and Canada, from the new Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, paints a […]
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Global cancer burden growing, amidst mounting need for services: Ahead of World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), released the latest estimates of the global burden of cancer. WHO also published survey results from 115 countries, showing a majority of countries do not adequately […]
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Tobacco Industry failing to halt tobacco use: Tobacco use declines despite tobacco industry efforts to jeopardize progress. Globally there are 1.25 billion adult tobacco users, according to the latest estimates in the World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco trends report out today. Trends in 2022 show a continued decline in tobacco use rates globally. With about […]
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The Institute for Tobacco Studies (ITS) in Täby, Sweden, has raised a critical question about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) strategies in combating smoking and its impact on public health. In a topical paper, ITS highlights the success of Sweden’s transition from traditional cigarettes to smokeless alternatives, urging the WHO to consider this approach as […]
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The Institute for Tobacco Studies (ITS) in Täby, Sweden released a topical paper urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to look at the successful Swedish experiences of large-scale transition from cigarettes to smokeless alternatives to reduce smoking-related deaths globally. The paper was published on Qeios—a platform where it can be downloaded. Dr. Lars M. Ramström, […]
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The European Respiratory Society (ERS) is urging global policymakers to support and adopt tobacco policies that are health driven and science backed. The statement comes one month before the Tenth Session of the Conference of Parties (COP10) on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Taking place in Panama on 20–25 November, […]
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Kids still strapped in for second hand smoke as Direct Line Motor Insurance releases findings that eight in ten (83 per cent) drivers who smoke, admit to illegally lighting up with children in the car. • 83 per cent of drivers who smoke do so with children in the car, with nearly a quarter (24 […]
Ahead of World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) reinforced its commitment to help farmers in the world’s most tobacco dependent country, Malawi, explore and embrace sustainable agriculture alternatives to tobacco farming. With funding from a five-year FSFW grant, construction has begun for the Centre for Agricultural Transformation’s (CAT) physical […]
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