In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health. Public health advocates were winning. City after city was innovating ways to ...
Teen usage of vaping and e-cigarettes took a drastic jump in 2018, but are blanket approaches like bans the most effective solution? After a spate of negative publicity and illnesses related to black market vaping ...
Students as young as Grade 5 expressed a wish “to study hard to repay” the company, and many thought “the tobacco company is kind.” (By Jennifer Fang, The Conversation) Would you send your child to ...
“The industry is positioning Tobacco 21 as the only thing that needs to be done on tobacco prevention.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to introduce legislation to raise the legal age to buy ...
In a ‘historic judgment,’ big tobacco was dealt a major blow by an appeals court in Canada. (By Allison Lampert and Martinne Geller, Reuters) The Court of Appeal of Quebec upheld on Friday the bulk of ...
“It’s time for the tobacco industry to take responsibility for their toxic waste.” Over 2.4 million cigarette butts were collected from beaches around the world in 2017, topping the list of ocean pollutants and toxicants. ...
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