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A study shows that many youngsters are becoming addicted to vaping, amid advertising aimed at them and the lack of regulatory control.
NICOTINE

South Africa’s double defeat – smoking up, vaping unchecked

The industry has learnt to reinvent and repackage its products to hook the young

  • Sam Filby & Corné van Walbeek
6 min read
South Africa promised to make laws that will clamp down on advertising of tobacco products to stop people from picking up smoking. Now the tobacco industry has new tactics to get around ad bans. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS CONTROL BILL

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…

  • Christina Pitt
9 min read
CHILD LABOUR

Malawi’s child tobacco pickers ‘poisoned by nicotine’

investigation finds child labourers in Malawi are exposed to nicotine poisoning equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes a day.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read