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Big Tobacco’s profit addiction needs a quit plan
New legislation seeks to stop tobacco companies from luring non-smoking teens into becoming addicted to their deadly produc
Big Tobacco tries to stop SA’s anti-smoking Bill from becoming law
The Bill says the same rules should apply to vaping and traditional cigarettes and that both should be sold in plain packaging and banned in all public spaces
Does South Africa’s new tobacco bill have enough teeth to thwart F1 sprints on TV?
Tobacco ads have been banned in many countries for years, but Big Tobacco is finding ways to get around the rules — like partnering with Formula 1 to punt their new products to a…
The tobacco bill violates human rights
Harm reduction, not regulations will help South African smokers to quit
A sin tax on vapes is not as bad as Aids denialism. Here’s why
Lobbyists pushing for vaping as a way to help people quit smoking insist taxing e-cigarettes like traditional smokes will lead down a similar path as denying HIV treatment to…
Smoking giant China planning e-cigarette regulation
The Asian giant has over 300 million tobacco-smokers, but the vaping trend has yet to explode as it has in the United States and elsewhere.
Smoke, spies, and lies: Big Tobacco gatecrashes public health lobby meeting
South Africa’s top public health experts sat down to discuss the safety of e-cigarettes. The verdict? Stay away.
Vaping could pose a cancer risk, study finds
‘E-cigarette smokers might have a higher risk than nonsmokers of developing lung and bladder cancers and heart diseases’
The antismoking lobby says e-cigarettes should fall under the same act as ‘normal’ cigarettes
The Electronic-cigarette Association of South Africa has labelled the government’s attempts to regulate the devices as a cop-out.
It makes cents: Smokers who quit have good reason to switch to vaping
Many smokers find quitting impossible, but vaping can reduce tobacco-related harm.
E-cigarettes the enemy of the health system – Motsoaledi
If the health minister has his way, vaping will soon be regulated like regular smoking because, he says, Big Tobacco is complicit in its rise.